'Miami Connection' is an odd movie. It has a laundry list of inadequacies. The acting is lackluster, the dialogue is a mess, the fight choreography is often awkward, and there are no shortage of scenes that seem to serve no purpose. It is bad.
At the same, I didn't walk away from this movie with the same feeling I have had with other supposed "so bad it's good" films. When you watch something like 'Samurai Cop', you are constantly laughing at the movie. In 'Miami Connection', I couldn't help but feel I was, at times, laughing with it. Maybe it was because it seemed like the actors were having fun in a self-aware manner. Maybe it was the ludicrous plot. Maybe it was the music scenes. Maybe it was the over-the-top friends forever sentiment. Whatever it was, it worked for me.
I think its this mix of laughable badness and heart-warming playfulness that makes this such a great bad movie. Sometimes it is pretty good, usually, it is awful. But it is always entertaining. I can't recommend it enough.
At the same, I didn't walk away from this movie with the same feeling I have had with other supposed "so bad it's good" films. When you watch something like 'Samurai Cop', you are constantly laughing at the movie. In 'Miami Connection', I couldn't help but feel I was, at times, laughing with it. Maybe it was because it seemed like the actors were having fun in a self-aware manner. Maybe it was the ludicrous plot. Maybe it was the music scenes. Maybe it was the over-the-top friends forever sentiment. Whatever it was, it worked for me.
I think its this mix of laughable badness and heart-warming playfulness that makes this such a great bad movie. Sometimes it is pretty good, usually, it is awful. But it is always entertaining. I can't recommend it enough.