Miami Blues

Essentially genre-less, Miami Blues is both eagerly romantic, violent, and very funny. True Romance but with less restraint. From Fred Ward's teeth to Baldwin's brazen disregard to normal human behavior, the movie is a ton of fun. Totally underrated and forgotten. I'm pretty sure rewatches are going to send this up and up in my book.

An intriguing artifact that uses pitch black comedy to set itself apart from the crime capers of its generation. The leads shine as well: Baldwin's performance is creepy, unhinged, and hilarious; and Leigh is his perfect foil in balancing sweetness with toughness - a Southern hothouse flower who, God as her witness, refuses to wilt.

Watched in tribute to Fred Ward (1942-2022). Entertaining jet-black comedy thriller boasts three excellent performances by Ward, Baldwin and Leigh although it sometimes seems uncertain of its tone and - a sign of its times - is bogged down by an overbearing, dated score. It makes good use of its South Florida locations. The recurring business involving fingers made me squirm.

They must have been snorting some great cocaine when they made this, to think that it was any good at all. Horrendous directing, shit acting from everyone but Jason Leigh, non-existent story arc. For me it doesn't work as a comedy, nor as a thriller.

Despite a lot of good parts, I got a sense of subtraction by addition, as afterwards the film seemed thin gruel. The emotional balance of the film rests on Baldwin's fulfillment of the dreams of Leigh, and the tension between his life of crime (and the means by which he succeeds). These scenes are quite short in comparison with the set-up, and we never quite manage to get the scales level before the contradictions compel the denouement.

Excellent. Baldwin is hard to like in this, but impossible to hate, too. As he does one horrible thing after another, you can still see the part of him that wants to change. Just like you can see that part of Leigh believes in him, and part knows better, and is just wrecked by him. Ward is doing his regular Ward-y thing, and it's as enjoyable as always. Really atmospheric film with well-chosen locations and great sets. Would have scored it higher, but it made me too sad.

Something of a mess that remains mildly amusing because of the unhinged characters, all of which seem at least seriously neurotic. But hey, I guess that's life. Kind of resembles an 80's cop thriller if it had been directed by Tom Green sans whatever the fuck Green smokes.

It’s both entirely obvious why and a genuine tragedy of film history that this doesn’t become a template for indie movies the same way Tarantino‘s first two movies would become later. Deliciously weird, properly funny, a complete career high for Baldwin.

Utterly deranged absurdist masterpiece. Baldwin is perfect and while JJL is extremely good a lot of her sections being played straight/almost for tragedy was one of the weaker parts of the movie overall

Entertaining little film with a standout performance from Baldwin and a very good one from Leigh. Interesting yarn with a good setting, but nothing particularly special. Worth your time, though.

It tries to be many things at once, but never truly commits to be really good at any of them. Despite that, the film has a heart and it's interesting enough as its own thing.

Baldwin vs Ward is very entertaining. Also JJL is adorable in this flick.

baldwin'in çekerken en çok eğlendiği filmse hiç şaşırtıcı olmaz. tuhaf damarı bir yere kadar eğlenceli olsa da o tarzı destekleyen bir plot yok ortada.

I seem to remember this being good quirky fun, it's been a helluva long time though so added to re-watch list.

I read the book first, was pretty unimpressed with Willeford, who was supposedly one of the great hardboiled writers out there. I'm something of a connoisseur of hardboiled writing too, so, I'd like to say that the quality of this movie is the result of an egregious bastardization of the book, but that's not true. The book wasn't good, the movie is worse. Baldwin doesn't fit, Ward is fine, but the major pitfall here is that Moseley is made out to be a minor character, just like the book.

a film that can be summed up by a passage in which jennifer jason leigh obliviously delivers a line of such tragedy it's hard not to tear up, then throws a frisbee to the guy whose teeth her fiancé stole and he grins and offers a frisbee salute.

Surprisingly good. It's light-hearted eighties-style action fare, but has a riveting cast, a lot of those little detail touches that make a difference, and avoids the expected cheap thriller tropes at every turn.

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Taut Miami noir with Baldwin on fire as the predatory Junior, the mobile camera matching his restless prowling. Throw in a terrific Jason Leigh and a quirky Fred Ward as the toothless cop on his trail, and you've got a little gem. Some nice black humour too.

lol bizarre and mostly awesome

Fred Ward is the man yo. This is the Alec I like, not the funny fat man he is today.

Classic movie! Very funny, and very original.

It's interesting to see some of the basic noir conventions played out in one of the sunniest places imaginable. It's the sort of crunchy lunacy that made a career for Carl Hiaasen. Armitage's movie is peppered with amusing passages, but it's ultimately hampered by a pedestrian visual approach and middling performances by Alec Baldwin (still in the pretty boy coasting era of his career) and Fred Ward.

Pretty good black comedy foreshadowed Armitage's pitch-black Grosse Pointe Blank.

Not bad.