Movies Similar to Miami Blues (1990)

	Marc P.

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Alec Baldwin romps as sociopathic career criminal Frederick J. "Junior" Frenger in the crime and love story 'Miami Blues'. Junior ensnares the charms of call-girl Pepper, wonderfully underplayed by Jennifer Jason Leigh. Their rapidly growing lifestyle coincides with the rapidly diminishing lifestyle of pursuing Sgt. Hoke Moseley, played by Fred Ward. Junior beats him up and sets him up, only to use Moseley's stolen badge to hilariously effective results. Junior loves his new life as a practically married Robin Hood with a badge, except that he doesn't give the proceeds from his mall heists and street hold-ups to more than two poor people: Pepper and himself. Inevitably, Junior'™s increasingly bold and bloody robberies lead to Moseley catching up. Pepper doesn'™t regret the experience; she gets out of the hotel prostitution racket, he never hits her, and he loves her cooking.

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	Daniel D.

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This movie was barely OK - I've seen worse. Baldwin has improved significantly since this, as has Leigh. The script was also marginally OK.

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	Keith G.

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Not quite a great film, but an entertainingly odd and unique one. Full of rough violence and noir situations played as dark comedy. Alec Baldwin is very good as a killer sociopath who somehow is also likeable when he is not robbing and beating people. Fred Ward is terrific as the scraggly cat of a cop who chases Baldwin down after Baldwin steals his badge, gun and false teeth, and starts to run around pretending to be a cop himself. And Jennifer Jason Leigh underplays to great effect as a pretty, dumb hooker, who falls for Baldwin, and does not figure out just what kind of guy he is until very late in the game. That said, it does not add up to a lot emotionally, the Leigh role is underwritten, and there are several gaping logic holes the film just ignores (Ward has dinner early on with Baldwin and Leigh, clearly knows he i™s a criminal, but just leaves?!?)

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