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LAST MANN STANDING

BY 1992, auteur Michael Mann had made a name for himself with a series of visually stylish contemporary crime thrillers steeped in the legacy of Michelangelo Antonioni, Stanley Kubrick and Jean-Pierre Melville. , and traded the emotion drenched tropes of the genre with a cold, procedural reality punctuated by shocking moments of visceral brutality. Not only that, he had changed the face, and the pastel-shaded sartorial stylings, of the TV buddy cop series as.

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