Miami Vice is a 2006 American crime drama film about two Miami police detectives, Crockett and Tubbs, who go undercover to fight drug trafficking operations. The film is an adaptation of the 1980s TV series of the same name, written, produced, and directed by Michael Mann. The film stars Jamie Foxx as Tubbs and Colin Farrell as Crockett, as well as Chinese actress Gong Li.

Plot

While working an undercover prostitute sting operation Miami-Dade Police detectives James "Sonny" Crockett and Ricardo "Rico" Tubbs receive a frantic phone call from their former informant Alonzo Stevens. Stevens reveals that his wife Leonetta is in immediate danger, asks Rico to check on her, and he plans to blow town. Crockett learns that Stevens was working as an informant for the FBI but has been made. He and Tubbs quickly contact the FBI SAC (Special Agent In Charge) John Fujima and warn him that whatever the Bureau's investigation that Stevens was involved with, is now compromised. Tracking down the informant through a vehicle transponder and aerial surveillance Crockett and Tubbs stop him along I-95 and learn that a Colombian cartel knew that Russian undercovers were working with the FBI from the start and had threatened Stevens that unless he confessed Leonetta would be assassinated via a C-4 necklace bomb. Rico tells Alonzo that he doesn't have to go home. Learning her fate Stevens, in a state of grief, steps in front of a tractor trailer.