Sometimes it's worth going back to see why some movies by acclaimed directors were so dismally scored by critics - because when you're talking Michael Mann, you're expecting way better than this. The 80's TV show remake contains the essential Mann elements: big city, heavy-hitting criminals, soul-searching conversations in diners, themes and decisions about what really matters. But something is missing, and even though many unknowns here went on to win Oscar nominations through the next decade, there's nothing, like in Thief or Heat, that made me want more, or to contemplate when it was over.
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