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Critic Reviews
Apr 8, 2022
Season 1 Review:
Michael Mann, who directed the sensational pilot episode of this fact-based, eight-part series about an American reporter (a terrific Ansel Elgort) covering the crime beat in Tokyo, shows you how thrilling action can be when a world-class talent is calling the shots.
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IndieWireFeb 8, 2024
Season 2 Review:
“Tokyo Vice” relies on its actors to bring humanity to their characters’ unremitting contradictions as much as it depends on its directors to draw out the series’ rigorous style. Mann, who helmed the pilot, does not return for Season 2 (aside from his executive producer title), but Alan Poul (“Six Feet Under,” “The Eddy”), Josef Kubota Wladyka (“The Terror” Season 2), Takeshi Fukunaga (FX’s upcoming epic “Shōgun”), and others immerse us in an expansive vision of 1999-era Japan.
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The PlaylistApr 4, 2022
Season 1 Review:
After a narratively rocky start held together largely through Michael Mann’s undeniable craftsmanship, the show slowly comes into its own over the next few episodes, becoming richer and more interesting with each one. It’s a program that will demand patience, but that increasingly feels like it will be worth the effort.
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Apr 4, 2022
Season 1 Review:
Don’t let the stranger-in-a-strange-land story (and Elgort’s presence) put you off Tokyo Vice; it’s as moody and atmospheric as any Mann-led tale you’ll see. Equal parts journalistic procedural, fish-out-of-water story, and Beat Takeshi-esque crime thriller, the first five episodes provided to critics for review set us up for a welcome slice of lurid thrills.
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Apr 4, 2022
Season 1 Review:
At its best, Tokyo Vice drags the viewer’s arm through the bars, alleys, offices, and homes of the city’s many classes and communities, providing a rounded picture of a place that leaves room for the thrill of exploration and discovery. That’s what good journalism is supposed to do, right? Bring the world to your front door? Tokyo Vice does that, with a sleek, energizing style that keeps us wanting more.
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ColliderFeb 1, 2024
RogerEbert.comApr 11, 2022
Season 1 Review:
“Tokyo Vice” feels much different than typical American crime, with action based on calm, firm interactions that exchange secrets, and can be spiked with alternating honor and shame. Everyone is holding their end of a deal, until they decide not to. Aside from making for scenes of uniformly strong performances, it all gives the series an enticing slow burn.
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The Daily BeastApr 7, 2022
Apr 7, 2022
Season 1 Review:
The machinations of the plot are less important than the people it carries along; and it’s our concern for them — heightened by the feeling that things might go very wrong at any moment — that keeps “Tokyo Vice” suspenseful and, in the bargain, makes us care about the characters all the more.
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Apr 5, 2022
Season 1 Review:
[Michael Mann] gives the project the shove-off it needs. ... [Ansel Elgort] is utterly plausible as a young man who takes on a seemingly impossible task—penetrating Japanese journalism—with the full expectation of making it happen, of being able, if nothing else, to charm his way to success. ... The women of “Tokyo Vice” could be a series unto themselves.
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The GuardianApr 5, 2022
Season 1 Review:
Bolstered by taut dialogue verging on the hardboiled, a smattering of viciously swift action, and a lead performance from a star more comfortable than we’ve ever seen him, it’s an exceptionally accomplished take on the True Detective/Mare of Easttown mold in vogue as of late.
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Apr 4, 2022
Season 1 Review:
“Tokyo Vice” assert[s] itself as a significant new entry in the crime-drama canon. ... A beautifully shot and elegantly acted series that can seem at times to power past its writing. The pilot so effectively conjures the disorientation and novelty of a new place that the fish-out-of-water storyline feels somewhat new.
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Feb 7, 2024
Season 2 Review:
Despite some fatty dialogue and overly earnest performances—or perhaps, unevenly earnest performances—season 2 finds traction. (Only five of 10 episodes were made available for review.) .... There are multiple subplots in "Tokyo Vice," all of which are destined to coalesce. En route to a melding, however, they require one's complete attention, if not a clipboard.
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Apr 6, 2022
Season 1 Review:
Viewers will be won over by this series’ charms and mysteries, even if it frustrates and falls short in some of the aspects that draw in viewers in the first place, specifically Mann’s involvement and the thinly drawn Adelstein. Still, the series lives up to its namesake city by offering intrigue and quirky surprises in equal parts.
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Apr 6, 2022
Season 1 Review:
The mechanics of the story in “Tokyo Vice” are familiar from decades’ worth of both Japanese and American gangster films. But they’re treated with sufficient respect and professionalism, and just enough imagination, to make another ticket on this particular Shinjuku carnival ride worth the investment, at least if you’re inclined to enjoy leisurely neo-noir.
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Apr 5, 2022
Season 1 Review:
[Ansel Elgort] is unremarkable as journalist Jake Adelstein. ... It’s Watanabe and the show’s other Japanese actors — primarily Rinko Kikuchi, Shô Kasamatsu, and Hideaki Itô — whose performances and character backstories are compelling enough to overcome the slightly repetitive dialogue and sometimes workmanlike direction.
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Apr 4, 2022
Season 1 Review:
Tokyo Vice has some narrative problems as hard to miss as a flashing neon sign, but it's kept watchable by its slick style and strong performances until its story picks up. Once it does, it's pretty engrossing. It just takes longer than it should, and you may have checked out by then.
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Apr 5, 2022
Season 1 Review:
The Japanese cast is excellent, especially Adelstein's newsroom boss Eimi (Rinko Kikuchi), but Elgort's Adelstein never quite comes into focus himself. There's a lot of energy in the performance but almost no substance. As a result, his Adelstein recedes while the foreground is commanded by the true star here. That's almost — just not quite — enough.
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Apr 5, 2022
Season 1 Review:
The five episodes I’ve seen each still delivered enough intriguing and authentic story beats per episode to keep me consistently engaged, while at the same time making me wish that this latest entry in a long-outmoded genre might find some way to go a little deeper instead of hovering on the surface of something and someplace fascinating.
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