CHENNAI: Films on gangsters are nothing new and they have had an arc beginning from the American Westerns to Godfather fare. HBO Max’s “Tokyo Vice,” created by J.T. Rogers in a series of eight episodes, are yawningly long and offer little novelty or finesse. Narrating the adventures of a real-life American journalist, Jake Adelstein, who learnt Japanese, lived in Tokyo, worked
Tokyo Vice is filled to the brim with impressive performances by a supremely talented ensemble and aesthetically pleasing visuals of 90s futuristic Japan at its neon-est, but suffers tremendously from a haphazard script. Read Pinkvilla's review.