Genre: Action
Director: David Leitch
Writer: Mo Buck
Based on the video game series
Cast: Vince Vaughn, Matthew Broderick, Jamie Foxx, Bobby Cannavale, Woody Harrelson, Luis Guzman, Antonio Banderas, Danny Trejo, Ana de Armas, Mel Rodriguez, Kyle Chandler
Plot: The police officers are lining up and preparing to release one of the most notorious criminal inside the penitentiary, Tommy Vercetti (Vince Vaughn) was scheduled to be released today. Vercetti was convicted of eleven counts of murder. Even the guards couldn’t believe his life story. Vercetti was sent to assassinate a key mobster by the Forelli family, but he was ambushed. Eleven hitmen were present when Vercetti arrived and he was able to kill them all brutally. Due to his connection to the Forelli’s Vercetti was spared the death penalty or the life imprisonment usually reserved to these crimes. Today, Tommy is getting out. It’s 1986. He enters the taxi the prison called him. The taxi gets on the highway and takes the exit to Liberty City. He gets off in front of Forelli’s mansion and gets inside after saying hello to his old pals. Sonny Forelli (Bobby Cannavale), the head of the Forelli family is waiting for him in the office. Tommy is excited to be back, but Sonny doesn’t share his enthusiasm. He announces him that he’s sending him to Vice City, in order to establish a drug ring down there, his presence in Liberty City could be distracting for many. Tommy accepts and leaves.
Tommy lands in Vice City and gets in a cab. It strolls down the road, near the beach. Girls in bikinis, Hawaiian shirts, flip flops, expensive convertibles, bright neon lights, name it, it’s in Vice City. Tommy meets with his two contacts in a beach side apartment, Harry and Lee, who also work for the Forellis. They announce to Tommy that they need to meet the family’s lawyer right now to discuss business. Tommy wanted to discover the city, but goes anyway, because he thinks business is more important.
Ken Rosenberg (Matthew Broderick) is a shady lawyer, who successfully graduated, but as always been suspected of cheating on his exams. He’s currently in court, defending a client who illegally used a firearm. He quotes the second amendment of the American constitution to defend his client. After a nice “performance”, the judge finds his client not guilty to his amusement. He quickly gets out of the courtroom and gets in his car. He races to his apartment and picks up Tommy Vercetti, Harry and Lee. En route, he explains to the partners that he organized a drug deal with old pals. They meet in at the docks, the site of the deal. A helicopter approaches and the two Vance brothers, Lance (Jamie Foxx) and Vic (Jamie Foxx) get down. They start discussing the price while Ken Rosenberg goes to get the suitcase full of cash in the trunk. A few dozen masked men arrive and start gunning everyone. Ken is able to hide behind the car. Harry, Lee and Vic Vance are killed, while Tommy was able to escape with Ken. Lance Vance retreated to his helicopter and flew away. Tommy drives fast to Ken’s office, where he drops him. He says that he will call him later. Tommy realizes he doesn’t remember where the apartment was, so he rents a room at a beach side hotel. Tommy calls Sonny Forelli. He tells him what happens at the drug deal and that they don’t have the drugs and the money anymore. An angry Sonny tells Tommy that he will have to get his money and his drugs back and that he isn’t a man to mess with. Tommy angrily throws the phone to the floor.
The following day, Tommy drives to Ken’s office to know if he learned anything about the ambush at the drug deal with the Vance crime family. He said he didn’t do anything as he was too shocked by what happened, much to the disappointment of Tommy who threatens him. Ken admits it was someone else who organized the meeting. That certain someone is throwing a party on his yacht today and Rosenberg has been invited to attend. Tommy forces him to give him his invitation and he runs away to the party. Rosenberg adjusts his suit, sits down and sniffs a line of cocaine.
Tommy arrives at the yacht in question and it is huge. It belongs to Colonel Juan Cortez (Antonio Banderas). He’s a retired Central American colonel and he owns a luxurious yacht, that’s often host of impressive parties with guests varying from football stars to influential politicians. Tommy gets on board and goes to talk to the man. He says he knows $2,000,000 and 20 kilos of cocaine were stolen during the routine drug trade and he’ll do everything he can to find the one responsible for this. He’ll discuss the details of the deal with Tommy later, after the party. He introduces Tommy to his daughter, Mercedes Cortez (Ana de Armas). She points out the famous guests on the yacht today, including a congressman, a porn star and football player. She also mentions Avery Carrington (Woody Harrelson), who’s standing beside his protégé, Liberty City mogul Donald Love (Kyle Chandler). Mercedes starts to freak out when she sees Ricardo Diaz (Luiz Guzman), aka Mr. Coke, arriving at the party. He always had a thing for her and it didn’t swing both ways. Mercedes brings Tommy with her and they drive together to a strip club together.
Following his stop at the strip club with Mercedes, Tommy’s walking in an alley at night. An expensive car stops next to him and the window goes down, it’s Lance Vance. He gets out of his car and starts pushing Tommy around. He wants to know who set up the deal, only to find out Tommy doesn’t know either. Some masked men arrive and start shooting at Lance and Tommy who escape with Lance’s car. He drops him at the hotel and reminds him that he’s watching his every move.
The next day, Tommy goes back to Ken’s office to try and obtain more information about the botched drug deal. The lawyer sends him to see Avery Carrington, the real estate mogul, a dear friend of Colonel Cortez and a client of Rosenberg’s. The cowboy hat-sporting redneck lives in a glorious house in a private neighborhood. Tommy goes there to meet with the man, who offers protection to Tommy and Lance Vance on the condition that he does something for him in exchange. He needs him to “persuade” a rival property developer in selling his land. Carrington mentions that he’s currently playing golf at the country club. Tommy puts on golf clothes and leaves for the club.
When Tommy gets there, he passes through security, who confiscate his large array of firearms. Vercetti locates the man with two bodyguards standing beside him. He approaches them and kills them both with his fists. The property manager got scared and tries to escape using a golf cart. Tommy grabs a golf club and chases the man with a golf cart of his own. He chases him down before knocking down his cart after jumping on it with his. The man is ejected from the cart and Tommy grabs his golf club. He clubs the man to death. He walks calmly to the exit, retrieves his guns and drives back to Carrington’s house.
Carrington says that he needs one last favor from Tommy. He wants the real estate prices to go down and there’s no better way to do it than to start a war between the Cuban gang and the Haitian gang. Umberto Robina (Danny Trejo), the leader of the Cuban gang, enters the room and explains the situation to Tommy. A Haitian gang lord died recently, and everybody knows it’s the Cuban, but they can’t prove it. Carrington wants Tommy to kill the new Haitian lord at the old one’s funeral. Tommy dresses up as a Cuban and heads down to the Little Haiti Pizzeria. Tommy takes out a submachine gun and starts gunning at the Haitian, who spot him. He kills all of them, before assassinating the lord last. Tommy places a bomb in the restaurant and blows it up as he leaves.
The next day, Tommy meets with lawyer Ken Rosenberg to try to know if he learned anything about the botched drug deal. He says the Colonel wants to speak to him about it, after he refused to at the yacht party the other day. Tommy drives there and meets Colonel Cortez for the second time, along with his daughter Mercedes. Cortez tells him about Gonzalez, a former right-hand man who’s responsible for botching the deal. He told way too many people about it. Mercedes feels bored and wants to go with Tommy. Cortez is initially reluctant, but he accepts after his daughter begs him to. They leave and enter a small restaurant, where Gonzalez (Mel Rodriguez) is seated. Tommy sits in front of him, with Mercedes watching. Tommy asks him about the drug deal and Gonzalez denies any wrong doing. Tommy loses patience and tells him that he shouldn’t have blown the deal. He grabs a fork and shoves it in Gonzalez’s eye. He grabs the man and drags him in an alley. He beats him to death, with Mercedes watching. It is too much to take for Mercedes who leaves Tommy. Vercetti leaves the scene and starts walking on the sidewalk. He’s interrupted by Lance Vance, who comes and fetches him with his car. He says he’s been looking all over town for him, as there’s a drug deal going down between Ricardo Diaz’s gang and the Cubans of Umberto Robina.
The two of them go to watch over the deal, from a safe distance. The deal was going well until the Haitians decide to show up and ambush the deal, as a way to get back at the Cubans for killing their crew and blowing up their pizzeria, when, in fact, Tommy did all of this. During the faceoff, Lance and Tommy are spotted by Haitians who believe them to be marksmen for one of the gangs. They’re caught in the crossfire and kill the Haitians, with the help of the Diaz gang and the now completely decimated Cuban crew, with the exception of Umberto Robina. After everything is over, Ricardo Diaz offers both of them to work for him, because they did such a great job today. They both accept before leaving.
Tommy invited Lance back in his hotel room to discuss their association. Lance said that he learned while Tommy was doing god knows what, that it was Ricardo Diaz who ambushed the deal, as he didn’t want nobody else heavily involved in the drug business in Vice City. Tommy says they should gain his trust before killing him. Lance agrees and he leaves.
The following day, Tommy wakes up to the sound of his telephone ringing. It’s Ken Rosenborg, who wants to warn him that he saw Lance Vance this morning and that he wants to kill Diaz, right now, at a restaurant where he’s supposed to eat breakfast with an associate this morning. Tommy dresses up and races to stop Vance before it’s too late. It is indeed too late, as Vance as already started shooting at people. Tommy tells him to stop as Diaz isn’t in the restaurant. Their cover now blown, they head to Diaz’s mansion to kill him. They arrive there and quickly take care of the bodyguards. A shootout follows at the mansion, where Tommy and Lance are able to come out alive. They enter Diaz’s office, who starts shooting at them with a machine gun. You can see he never really used a gun in his life and is unable to hit them. Tommy kill the man and Lance is satisfied. They hear police siren coming and Lance decides to flee, as Tommy says he wants to stay to find something. Lance doesn’t mind and wishes for Tommy to not get caught. Tommy steals Diaz’s cash in numerous bags and manages to escape before the police finds him.
Tommy goes to see Ken Rosenberg with the money. He suggests Tommy a vast array of businesses he could acquire with such a large amount of money. He suggests to Tommy to keep a little bit for Sonny, who still wants to be paid. The first business Tommy buys is the Pole Position Strip Club. We see a montage of the businesses Tommy buys with Ken Rosenberg, including the Malibu Club, a nightclub, an ice cream company, a cab company, a car showroom, the InterGlobal Studios from Steve Scott and finally the Diaz’s mansion, who he renames the Vercetti estate. Sonny Forelli, all the way from Liberty City, hears what Tommy is doing in Vice City. He gives word that he wants a cut of the revenue, something Tommy doesn’t want to give to Forelli.
We see a man getting down a plane in Vice City and he enters a cab. It’s Sonny Forelli. When the cab driver asks him where he wants to go, he says he came for his money.
Lance visits Tommy at his new estate and says that he feels underappreciated, after Tommy left him out of all his purchases. Lance tells him he learned Sonny Forelli is in town and he wants to get his money. Tommy tells Lance his intent of giving fake, unusable cash to Forelli.
Two days later, Lance arrives at the mansion to discuss business with Vercetti. Vercetti calls Rosenborg, as he wants him there, before they start talking about business assets. They’re both interrupted by Sonny Forelli, who arrives at the mansion. They all meet in Vercetti’s office. Tommy is sitting behind his desk, with Sonny and Lance sitting in front. Sonny wants his cash back and Tommy gives him the bag full of counterfeit money. Lance warns Sonny that Tommy’s trying to give him fake money, betraying Tommy. Sonny doesn’t understand why Tommy wanted to give him fake cash, to which Tommy responds that he wanted to piss him off before he kills him. It triggers a gun fight in the mansion. Tommy ducks under his desk and start shooting at the now-allied two men. They both leave without getting hit. Tommy takes a secret staircase and he sees Forelli’s men trying to steal money from the vaults. He kills them, before going back in his secret staircase and reaching the roof. He confronts Lance Vance who was hiding up there. Tommy engages in a gun fight with Lance and he finally kills him. Tommy gets down in the lobby. He’s hiding up the stairs and Sonny is below with a few of his men. Sonny screams to Tommy that he will never be able to kill him. Tommy gets up and kills two gang members. Sonny continues to talk. He says that the ambush that sent Tommy to prison was orchestrated by no other than Sonny Forelli himself. It triggers Tommy who gets up and kills everyone. He gets down the stairs to see a weak Sonny. He steps on his chest and Sonny screams. He empties his gun in Sonny’s head. Ken Rosenborg arrives at the mansion and asks what happened. Tommy says he had a disagreement with a business associate. He says to Ken that it could be the beginning of a beautiful business relationship.
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