{"id":2136669,"date":"2025-11-05T11:35:59","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T11:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2136669"},"modified":"2025-11-05T11:35:59","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T11:35:59","slug":"colin-farrell-explains-why-hes-not-a-fan-of-his-miami-vice-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/colin-farrell-explains-why-hes-not-a-fan-of-his-miami-vice-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"Colin Farrell explains why he\u2019s not a fan of his Miami Vice movie"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Colin Farrell<\/a> has explained why he\u2019s not a fan of the Miami Vice film he starred in.<\/p>\n

Farrell appeared alongside Jamie Foxx<\/a> in Michael Mann<\/a>\u2019s movie version of the hit 1980s TV show \u2013 but after watching the end product, he was left unimpressed<\/a>.<\/p>\n

According to Farrell, the film, which had a more serious tone than the TV show, failed to capture his off-screen camaraderie with Foxx, which the Irish star compared to buddy cop film Lethal Weapon.<\/p>\n

\u201cMiami Vice got slapped around a bit,\u201d Farrell told The Independent<\/a>.<\/p>\n

When he was reminded that he criticised the film himself in 2010, just four years after its original release, Farrell said: \u201cI had a certain banter with Jamie off camera that I know the tone of the film wouldn\u2019t have allowed that degree of banter. I would have loved to have just a little bit more of the banter.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was never gonna be Lethal Weapon, but just a little bit more of the banter that we had.\u201d<\/p>\n

He continued: \u201cThat was my biggest misgiving with the film. But I have very little objectivity about the things that I do. I heard from someone that people like it now.\u201d<\/p>\n

The film received middling reviews at the time of release, but has since generated a cult following.<\/p>\n

In 2010, Farrell said he didn\u2019t like Miami Vice, telling Belfast Telegraph: \u201cI thought it was style over substance and I accept a good bit of the responsibility.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Colin<\/span><\/div>\n

Colin Farrell was left underwhelmed by ‘Miami Vice’ (Universal Pictures)<\/p>\n

Another project Farrell would like to be reappraised is True Detective season two, which was savaged by critics upon its premiere in 2015. The show followed a hugely acclaimed debut season starring Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt got battered,\u201d he said, calling it \u201cone of the kicks on the arse\u201d he\u2019s experienced in his career.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was a bit sad with True Detective because I really did have a great experience playing, what was the character\u2019s name? Ray Velcoro. Loved that character. Loved, loved, loved playing Ray. He was an animal, but he was a decent man that did a lot of despicable s***.\u201d<\/p>\n

Farrell, who starred in the series with Rachel McAdams, Vince Vaughn and Kelly Reilly, added: \u201cIt was twisty and bent and all over the place.\u00a0It wasn\u2019t as linear as the wonderful subsequent seasons and the season that came before. [Series creator] Nic Pizzolatto is an extraordinary writer.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Colin<\/span><\/div>\n

Colin Farrell ‘loved’ starring in critically maligned ‘True Detective’ season two (HBO)<\/p>\n

Speaking about the show\u2019s disappointing response, Farrell said: \u201cYou take it on the chin. You just lick your wounds. It\u2019s really about the doing it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Farrell\u2019s latest film Ballad of a Small Player is available to stream on Netflix now.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source ca.news.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Colin Farrell has explained why he\u2019s not a fan of the Miami Vice film he starred in. Farrell appeared alongside Jamie Foxx in Michael Mann\u2019s movie version of the hit 1980s TV show \u2013 but after watching the end product, he was left unimpressed. According to Farrell, the film, which had a more serious tone […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2136670,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[316669,350556,370454,407084],"class_list":["post-2136669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-colin-farrell","tag-jamie-foxx","tag-miami-vice","tag-ray-velcoro"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Colin-Farrell-explains-why-hes-not-a-fan-of-his.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2136669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2136669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2136669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2136671,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2136669\/revisions\/2136671"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2136670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2136669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2136669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2136669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}