CSI: Miami (TV Series) Guerillas in the Mist (2007) User Reviews

Zap! You've Been Vaporized!

[ccthemovieman-1 · 8/10 · 7 October 2008]

The "Vaporizer."

Now, there is a cool weapon; an illegal gun capable of firing 100,000 rounds a minute. It is used here in the opening to kill three people, literally turn them into goo. All that is left of the three are their sneakers.

Who used this weapon? How did they acquire it? Most importantly, where is it? The latter is the main focus of this episode, getting at least equal time with the question "who used it." The "who" part is solved fairly early on but where the weapon went is another story.

It's a pretty interesting episode, beautifully filmed as usual with brilliant, bright colors. Some of the shots at the Miami port are filled with colorful crates at the dock. As for the "who," "why," and "where," the show does its usual thing: lead us from one suspect to another to another, all of whom are considered guilty but only the last one is, indeed. The problem is that once you've seen the suspects earlier, you can eliminate the others when they show up a second time and then by knowing there are only a few minutes left in the episode, you know the killer is only one you haven't seen twice. That pattern happens a lot on CSI.

The bad part of this show is that it turns into yet another exercise for the politically liberal writers to push their left wing agenda. Yes, the villains in in this are those who cite The Patriot Act and defend the U.S. involvement in Iraq. This is not the first time I've seen this on a CBS TV crime show. Funny, how these government types are always the villain in the world of movies and television shows, like this one.

All Brought to Justice in the End

[biorngm · 9/10 · 12 March 2018]

Review - Guerillas In The Mist - Aired 12-10-07 You're on the losing side of this one Lieutenant, I'll get 5,000 rounds before you get a shot. Well apparently it only takes the one. Humvee destroyed with Darren Butler at the Vaporizer, and the two men unloading the ammunition; Horatio three, bad guys zero, as the Lieutenant walks away from the scene of destruction and death. The episode ends with the action above and began with the illegal weapon obliterating three gun smugglers, as Calleigh verified the smuggler count to Delko by the number of shoes left. DNA from a cigarette but leads to the boss gun runner, who denies knowledge of the Vaporizer, although swears vengeance on the killers.

The Vaporizer holder is met by Horatio, who is not divulging information about the mystery weapon, then he too, is found dead from an initial stun-gun jolt, followed by an ingenious injection of air in the bloodstream via the eyeball. The big gun holder's death doesn't stop the company from inserting another man in control, where Horatio visits with the same inquiry concerning such a machine loose on Miami streets.

The killer of the vigilante security head was in fact a founder of the company and was seeking revenge for his treatment from the dead man. Nailing him was the residual filings from the syringe he had used repairing office equipment, his new legitimate employer. Catching the killer of an innocent man mistaken for the boss gunrunner were his fingerprints on a railing perch. All killers are brought to justice, by death or arrest.

Some lab scenes, the proverbial autopsy table visit and mostly dock locales are featured in this well-done episode; great beginning action and an ending action scene; definitely an episode worth watching.

CSI Miami or Star Trek ?

[alex-r-a-bengtsson · 1/10 · 12 December 2007]

I've been always an avid fan of CSI. I have watched ALL the episodes of CSI, CSI NY and CSI Miami, and I have never seen such a bad episode like the "Guerillas in the Mist". Warning Spoilers ahead: Whoever wrote this episode, invented a weapon called the "Vaporizer" which is shaped in the form of a big cross and that contains about 200 barrels. The back part of the gun/cross is like a big TV Screen to help some extra-terrestrial entity that may have invented the gun to aim it. Turns out that this weapon is used against 3 criminals in the beginning of the episode, making them "vanish" in a mist of flying blood. Only their tennis shoes are left behind. That is needless to say, ridiculous. If you fire the closest existing thing, which in my opinion is a Gatling gun, towards an enemy, he will not vanish in thin air leaving just his shoes behind. It is totally absurd. They should think better and use an existing exotic weapon, like they did in the episode with the "corner shot" weapon, which actually exists and it is fielded by the Israelis. One other thing that bothers me, is that computer room with a big crystal screen. Also looks too much of a Sci-Fi thing – not to mention that the screen is so big, that anyone passing on the corridor of their lab, can see what they are doing – which in real life could really compromise an investigation. I sincerely hope that CSI Miami goes back to the real world and plausible crimes.