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...must go largely to two men. One of them, Steven Bochco, was the co- creator (with Michael Kozoll) of Hill Street Blues, the police drama that brought the genre a gritty new look, bustling narratives and a recognition that police officers are adults, not cartoon heroes. The other, Michael Mann, gave the formula another new twist a few seasons later with Miami Vice, which used flashy visuals and a thumping rock sound track to transform familiar cops-and-robbers tales into moody morality plays...
...rushes to help folks in trouble while trying to keep her marriage afloat, a yuppie update of Hart to Hart. In CBS's Downtown, a tough cop gets crime-fighting help from four oddball parolees, a sort of B-Team. In addition to the routine fare, however, Bochco and Mann are introducing second- generation shows of their own. If neither is as groundbreaking as its predecessor, both exhibit a quality rare in prime time: they are unmistakable products of their creators, not of the TV assembly line...
...show has a grim, pounding energy, a bracing sound track that mixes Todd Rundgren with early rock (Del Shannon has rerecorded his hit Runaway for the show's theme) and an impeccable cast that seems to have emerged from the street, not a Hollywood casting call. Mann and Director Abel Ferrara indulge in few of the stylistic flourishes of Miami Vice but revel in the shadowy bars and gleaming tail fins of their seedy milieu...
...fact, Chermann explained, "it takes quite a bit of the virus to engender AIDS" in humans, more than is found in insects. Experts reaffirmed that intimate sexual contact, shared use of intravenous needles and infection at birth are the major ways to get the disease. Said Dr. Jonathan Mann, of the World Health Organization: "With the number of mosquitoes there are in Zaire, the entire population would already have the disease if they transmitted the virus...
With Miami Vice and his terrific debut feature Thief, Writer-Director Michael Mann honed his nouveau slick style: a strong silent leading man with a superb supporting cast, a flair for intelligent camerabatics, a bold, controlled color scheme, an assertive avant-rock sound track. Here he has found another subject to suit that disquieting style. Manhunter should keep viewers riveted throughout, and queasy through the next full moon...