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No surprises here; a Michael Mann TV show gets the Michael Mann movie treatment, except not as well as in Heat. The atmosphere and music soundtrack are all there, but the tension is missing, probably because Jamie Foxx and Colin Farrell can’t really be compared to Al Pacino and Robert DeNiro (can anyone?). Gong Li makes the trip West only to be reduced to a role of broken-English eye candy. Perhaps surprisingly, Colin Farrell does a much better job acting out a gravelly-voiced Crockett than Oscar-winning Jamie Foxx does acting out Tubbs.