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Trusting the community
I’ve been waiting to see Miami Vice since the first time I heard they were taking the idea behind the show and making it into a movie. I wasn’t too sure about the casting (not a huge Collin Farrell fan and Jamie Foxxx is hit and miss - I liked Ray and Collateral, but anyone who stars in a movie called Bootycall is a little suspect in my books). But I liked the fact that Michael Mann was in charge - since he was the brains behind the original show.
So when a friend of mine told me last week that he hated the movie I wasn’t sure whether or not to still dish out the dosh to go and see it. So I went to the only place I could think of for help, metacritic. Metacritic’s great, it gathers critics opinions from a large number of north american news outlets, as well as from users. It then gives a rating combining all the criteria it has access to.
Metacritic’s not the only one. Wikipedia and Amazon are other sites where you can inform the community about a product, service (or in Wikipedia’s case person, place, event etc as well).
The great thing about this is that it reduces risk. I don’t have to listen to one source about something, I can take the views of many into consideration before consuming.
So with all that said, Miami Vice has a rating of 65/100. Sounds like a wait till its on DVD to me.
