As empty and pointless as a Miami Vice episode

Rating: 3/10 (16 July 2019)

Michael Mann is to the 90s as Busby Berkeley is to the 30s: King of the empty spectacle. Full of style and noise, signifying nothing.
Production values force me to give this dreck 3 stars but everything else: plot, acting, plausibility, character development, gratuitous violence and profanity, check in at 1 star or less.
Other reviewers say this was based on a TV movie. I'm surprised it isn't actually a rejected Miami Vice script.
Way too many women for a cops and robbers movie. Val Kilmer and Tom Sizemore trying and failing to act. Enough black characters to qualify for some kind of NAACP award. The same five doofus cops working every shift, day and night.
If I had to choose between DeNiro's facial hair and Pacino's wig, I'd give the slight edge to DeNiro. That's the extent of my emotional investment in this movie.
I assume all those bloated high ratings that hyped this junk up to 8.2 (as of this writing) are Russian trolls on the studio payroll or maybe workers in the same Chinese factory that produces the Director's Cut DVD.