Michael Mann directs this adaptation of the classic 1980s television crime drama. Undercover Miami-Dade police detectives Sonny Crockett (Colin Farrell) and Rico Tubbs (Jamie Foxx) are summoned to help out on an FBI undercover operation that has gone disastrously wrong. Infiltrating a dangerous world of international drug dealers, somehow linked to a home-grown Neo Nazi group, Crockett and Tubbs pose as experienced criminals able to transport goods anywhere in the world.
But as they dig deeper into the criminal underworld, Tubbs worries that the mission will be compromised as Crockett finds himself falling for drug dealer Jesús Montoya (Luis Tosar)'s girlfriend, Isabella (Gong Li). When the two cops are betrayed by a rival dealer in the operation, Crockett and Tubbs break cover and lead their team to a climactic, brutal showdown.