Miami Blues [Blu-ray]

Alec Baldwin (Actor), Fred Ward (Actor), George Armitage (Director) Rated:
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Format: Blu-ray
IMDb6.4/10.0
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Genre Action & Adventure
Format Blu-ray, NTSC, Widescreen, Multiple Formats
Contributor Herb Goldstein, Anibal Bravo Y Su Orquesta (Anibal Bravo Y Su Orquesta), Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jack G Spirtos, Carmen Lopez, Kenneth Utt, Shirley Stoler, Gary Goetzman, Gary Howard Klar, Ron Bozman, Nora Dunn, Howard Feuer, Fred Ward, Patrick Cherry, Cecilia Perez-Cervera, Raphael Rey Gomez, Tony Tracy, Tony Paris, Lisa Bell, Paul Gleason, Matt Ingersoll, George Armitage, William Taylor Anderson, Alec Baldwin, Steve Geng, Georgie Cranford, Kerrie Clark, Nancy Duerr, Charles Napier, Vic Hunter, Edward Knott, Lou Garr, Wendy Thorlakson, Joe Hess, Maureen Fitzgibbon, Roy Datz, Catlin Brown, Obba BabatundT, Richard Helfritz, Bobo Lewis, Buddy Joe Hooker, Mark Mercury, Martine Beswicke, Edward Saxon, Jose Perez See more
Language English
Runtime 1 hour and 37 minutes

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Humble Frank
5.0 out of 5 stars Great film - But not for everyone.
Reviewed in the United States on January 6, 2014
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George Armitage brings the to the screen the first in the late Charles Willeford's Hoke Moseley crime thrillers in a grand style. But before warned. This film will either thrill you or disgust you.
"Miami Blues" is very faithful to the novel of the same name. The young Alec Baldwin is perfectly casted as the violent psychopath Freddy Frenger, Jr. or simply Junior. No actor is more suitable to fill the role of Sgt. Hoke Moseley than Fred Ward (who also acted as one of the producers of the film. And Jennifer Jason Leigh is also very good as another one of the frail women they she plays so well.
"Miami Blues" centers around recently paroled nut job Junior arriving in Miami (set to the tune Spirit in the Sky which become the theme of the movie), setting up house keeping with innocent young hooker Susie but continuing his criminal ways. As a result he runs afoul of uncouth Miami cop Moseley (in the opening scene Junior breaks the fingers of an annoying Hare Krishna leading to his death in a scene that is as funny to see as it is hard to watch). Note: in the book this Hare Krishna is actually the brother of the hooker Susie that Junior later sets up house keeping. While that fact is over looked in the screenplay it is typical to the approach the story telling takes. As Junior and Moseley cross paths Junior beats the older cop nearly to death and then steals his badge, gun and his false teeth. Now its up to the weaken Moseley to track down Junior, end his crime wave and most importantly recover his badge, gun and teeth.
I enjoyed this very violent and bloody black comedy so much that after my first viewing I purchased the entire book series the next day and I am very happy to now add the DVD to my film collection.
Some might say that Armitage went a little too far with the violence and gore but that is all lifted directly from the books so if you have a hard time viewing films were faces are sewn back up and fingers are hacked off by meat cleavers than this is certainly not the film for you.
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Kid Bleu
5.0 out of 5 stars Great To See This Re-Released in 2022
Reviewed in the United States on September 22, 2022
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I missed out on the Blu-ray that Shout! Factory released in 2015. It wasn't available for very long and quickly became a sought-after item, fetching big bucks on eBay. This new release actually has all of the extras of the Shout! Factory Blu-ray plus a few more, such as audio dubs in French and Spanish. Glad I waited because I almost paid a fortune for the Shout! Factory version out of desperation. That said, the Blu-Ray quality is not the greatest, not much better than the MGM widescreen DVD I've had for 20 years. But the interviews with Baldwin and Leigh are cool, which is the main reason I wanted this Blu-ray. Shame that they couldn't interview Fred Ward before he passed on.
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Ben F. Pierce
5.0 out of 5 stars Where's your teeth!?!?!?
Reviewed in the United States on January 26, 2023
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Great cast, great movie! Trigger alert: Alec Baldwin kills people but it's on purpose! It's a joke folks, lighten up lol... Still a great movie 😁
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Baba Ganush
4.0 out of 5 stars Intense suspense
Reviewed in the United States on May 12, 2022
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You know he's going to get caught but when? Fred played a determined if not barely apt homicide detective who let his guard down around a murdering ex-convict with no remorse and was victimized. He was then bent on revenge as well as getting his man. Alec Baldwin played a psychopath really well in this film.

Another gem from the late 80s that showed not all the films back then were teenage angst studies. The violence was graphic juxtaposed against JJL's country girl newly turned prostitute innocence.

It was a tour de force of character studies that never lost its way. I liked it.
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CanCan688
5.0 out of 5 stars Good influencing bad
Reviewed in the United States on May 14, 2022
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I think if the antagonist had been able to spend more time around good, he may have turned it around. Very well-developed characters and plot. 'Hollywood' mixed in as always, but the entertainment was still great.
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JohnMJam
3.0 out of 5 stars An odd crime drama.
Reviewed in the United States on July 4, 2024
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"Miami Blues" is a crime drama with a little comedy thrown in. It's more odd than funny. Fredrick J. Frenger Jr., played by Alec Baldwin, is a sociopath who we hope has some redeeming qualities because of his good looks. He's just a bad person prone to violence. Jennifer Jason Leigh gives a good performance as a cute but incredibly stupid hooker who hopes she can set up house with "Junior" and live happily ever after if he can keep his promise to stay out of trouble. I thought the script was intelligent, but not funny. This movie just quirky enough to be entertaining. This was not one of the best movies of 1990. It was a flop, losing about $1 million. I'm surprised at so many excellent views. I'll give it three stars for being entertaining.
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errin spelling
5.0 out of 5 stars Policemen don't drink beer on duty,unless you're dining with Alec
Reviewed in the United States on August 7, 2018
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He punches people in the nose and bends fingers backwards and has no remorse,like a real sociopath, but he is kind to his girlfriend. They love each other and get along well, but this is a comedy. Baldwin is very funny.If I had known it was a comedy , we would have watched this sooner. There just aren't enough comedies, that aren't ridiculous.
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Cheapskater999
5.0 out of 5 stars The American Dream vs. the American Nightmare
Reviewed in the United States on February 1, 2016
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It pulled me in again. Second time I've watched this great quirky film with it's bright pastels and memorable characters. It's so engrossing and unique and different due to great performances by Baldwin, Ward, and an amazingly endearing Jennifer Jason Leigh. Time flies by as the dichotomy between the American Dream and the American Nightmare is revealed with grit and tenderness and subtle American-style humor. The odd offbeat minor characters add just the right amount of spice and the ending is so perfect and complete that it left me whispering "wow" once again.
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Susanne Kahn
5.0 out of 5 stars top
Reviewed in Germany on May 8, 2024
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Film gut, Pproduktzustand top, Lieferzeit blitzschnell. Verkäufer sehr empfehlenswert.
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DAVID BALL
5.0 out of 5 stars Video
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 6, 2023
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Just a great film. Good playback quality
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Miguel Casellas Argaez
5.0 out of 5 stars Excelente!!
Reviewed in Mexico on December 21, 2018
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Excelente!!
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Giuseppe/Emanuela
4.0 out of 5 stars Un film geniale tratto dal capolavoro omonimo di Charles Willeford
Reviewed in Italy on March 4, 2019
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Un frenetico susseguirsi di eventi scatenato da un assassino psicopatico che ha rubato pistola e distintivo ad un poliziotto alquanto vendicativo. Un noir grottesco e moderno, imprevedibile e privo di una qualsiasi forma di moralismo. Geniale , mai banale, decisamente un film da vedere e consigliare. Consiglio inoltre la lettura del libro di Willeford dal quale il film è tratto. TOP!!!
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R. Paquette
5.0 out of 5 stars AS SHOCKING AND MEANINGLESS AS IIFE CAN SOMETIMES BE
Reviewed in Canada on June 20, 2014
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Watched the movie some twenty years ago, when my now post-graduate daughter was one year of age. Now bought it on DVD for retrieving the all-in-one-moment frame of mind of the Gottlieb character (Alec Baldwin), the hopeful submission of Susie (Jennifer Jason Leigh) and the rude, intuited and somewhat feeble police enforcement officer ? (Fred Ward).
As well as the "Spirit in the sky" tune by Norman Greenbaum that put it all in some morbid ethereal perspective.

See the electric performance of then young and fit Alec Baldwin, the downcasted one of Leigh...

Some psychopaths and delinquents were well portrayed there, as well as marginal law enforcement officers...

A rather good movie, with touches of sensitivity amidst all the violence: "Junior had many good points for him: he ate all I cooked and never hit me.." And the murderer went beyond his instinctual impulses so as to apologized, albeit with further motives...
Good and honest, althought simplistic, depiction of human nature and complexity, which results in sometimes surprising outcomes...

Not bad at all..
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