Miami Vice (TV Series) No Exit (1984) User Reviews

Bruce Willis stars as a wife-beating arms dealer!

[DVD_Connoisseur · 8/10 · 5 March 2007]

"No Exit" is classic "Miami Vice". With an excellent cast including a pre-"Moonlighting" Bruce Willis and Katherine ("Internal Affairs") Borowitz, a polished script and fast paced direction from David Soul, this is a great episode.

From the exciting opening sequence with Crockett lounging in his Ferrari and Tubbs under fire from an M60 machine gun to the freeze-frame at the end, this is big-budget, high-gloss television. Jan Hammer's atmospheric music is top-notch as always and there's the welcome return of Phil Collins to the soundtrack with "I Don't Care Anymore."

Superb. 8 out of 10.

Smooth direction and Bruce Willis as a heavy make this a winner

[Mr-Fusion · 8/10 · 7 April 2016]

From the beginning, the writing staff made it a point to show that "Miami Vice" isn't just about nose candy. So far, we've seen an X-rated movie baron, a contract killer, loan-sharking, and 'No Exit' centers on an arms dealer. And we're only seven episodes into the first season.

And who better to play that low life gun runner than Bruce Willis, who turns in one of the series' best heavy performances. Guy's a real scum bag, and that machismo is icing on the cake. He's got an untouchable air about him and that results in an utterly bleak ending. But the episode as a whole is a winner as Crockett and Tubbs mount a skilled offensive. We're watching these guys do what they do best.

8/10

Guest starring Bruce Willis

[Tweekums · 9/10 · 13 March 2012]

This episode gets off to an exciting start when the team get fired on by a group trying to sell stolen military weapons; it is amazing that nobody gets killed as one of them is spraying the crowded seafront with an M-60 machinegun! One of the group gets arrested leading to Tony Amato; a thoroughly unpleasant character who beats his wife, coming under suspicion. The team arrange for his home to be bugged only to be informed that a federal agency is also interested in the arms theft because not only machine guns were taken; the thieves also took ten Stinger surface to air missiles. Matters are complicated when the bugs planted in Amato's house pick up a call from his wife who appears to be preparing to have him killed! While Crockett ensures that she doesn't go through with her plan Tubbs impersonates the buyer in order to catch Amato and his associates with the missiles.

This was a top quality episode; it is fun seeing Bruce Willis playing Amato; he may not be a Hollywood heavyweight at the time this was made but he did well in the role. The story with Amato's wife presented an interesting moral dilemma for Crockett as he had to stand by while he could hear him beating her as to step in and arrest him would have led to the collapse of the deal and losing the lead on the Stingers; with each one capable of bringing down an airliner that chance could not be taken. There is also a decent if not totally unexpected twist at the end but I won't spoil that here. While there are less laughs than most episodes it isn't humour free; viewers will know exactly what is going to happen when the federal agents walk around Crockett's boat but that doesn't stop it being any less funny when one of them sees Elvis!

Nasty episode.

[mm-39 · 8/10 · 3 April 2017]

Nasty episode. Bruce Willis plays an arms dealer who beats his wife. Crockett and Tubbs make a hard decision of the lessor of two evils. Will this maniac kill his wife before Vice can get the important arms dealing arrest? Crockett goes deep cover with concern for the battered women. Well directed, acted, with a mix of music and style. NO Exit resonates a pathos of the characters feelings with the viewer. What a memorable ending. Eight out of Ten.

Top Notch Episode

[dumpy-3 · 10/10 · 14 March 2008]

No Exit, like many of Miami Vice episodes is superb. This one one stars a fresh face Bruce Willis and again uses a Phil Coillins track to great effect.

The story line is quite straight forward but is executed so well by all the actors and combined with the soundtrack and cinematography, makes it a real classic, not just for Miami Vice but for all short story episodes ever done on film.

I had to keep replaying one of the end sequences when Crockett fires his gun again and again; as the directing (David Soul, Hutch of Starsky and Hutch fame) and editing of the scene was so good. It was perfection done on a frame by frame level that deserves an award on it's own (you will know what I mean when you have seen it)

Miani Vice:No Exit

[Scarecrow-88 · 7/10 · 12 March 2010]

This Miami Vice episode, titled No Exit, is famous for featuring an early Bruce Willis performance before hitting paydirt with Moonlighting. He stars as an arms smuggler who is a louse of a husband. Crockett and Tubbs must contend with the FBI in regards to staking out Tony Amato(Willis). It seems Amato has been able to confiscate some missiles and wishes to sell them to a Jamaiican named Dupal, but Tubbs will assume his identity, hoping to infiltrate their smuggling operation and catch him and his cronies red-handed with the merchandise. But Lieutenant Castillo believes the FBI is hiding something, as they wish to remove the missiles from off the street, little concerned with Amato himself. The episode establishes that Amato is a mean sonofabitch to his wife, Rita(Katherine Borowitz), and how Crockett, who is keeping watch over his house from a boat on the water(..the Vice had bugged Amato's house as well), wants to arrest him bad. No Exit will be most recognized as the MV episode with Bruce Willis as a lousy, no-good crook in fancy clothes and beautiful ocean house, who finally gets his just desserts when it seems Rita would never escape his clutches, having to take matters into her own hands. We see in this episode how frustrating it is for the Vice cops when they put together such hard work only to have their criminals escape through channels thanks to government finagling.

Meet Bruce Willis

[Fluke_Skywalker · 6/10 · 13 June 2017]

Plot; A small time arms dealer comes into possession of a cache of Stinger missiles and Crockett and Tubbs reluctantly work with the Feds to stop him before they get out on the market.

Middling episode is noteworthy for guest star appearance by a pre Moonlighting Bruce Willis as the villain. Willis' character is completely one dimensional, but his star power is evident and he has you begging for him to get his comeuppance.