Review of Next (2007) by Edward H — 18 Jul 2012

The Premise seemed alright; the man who's been haunted all his life with the gift to see two minutes into the future holds a magic show in Vegas and makes some money on the side by gambling with his talent at the blackjack-table.

So far so good.But from the premise up, 'Next' crusades from one implausible scene to the next impossible one. With terrible cheesy dialog and completely miscast leads the film abandons all its great opportunities to be something entertaining in less than 15 minutes.

In stead it becomes one of the most dreadfully fleshed out action-movies I've seen in a long time. Where Cage can only see two minutes into the future in the beginning of the movie, he can already predict 2 hours into the future half way through the film.

Mapping complete city blocks in his head as well as booby trapped rooms and predicting more possible scenario's than a host of chess-masters could work out together in a day. By the end of this movie you can add dodging bullets to that and of course saving some 15 million people as he saves the day in the most gruesome violation of intellect being the 'ending' of this ultra bad flick.

This film is simply appalling to watch because it's not only crammed with all the ridiculous action-flick clichà (C)s while nothing of what you see makes any sense at all, it stands out as a cinematic giant in ripping off the hard earned dollar of the average Joe who goes to the theatre to be at least entertained.

This movie may have tried to do that but comes off bludgeoning its audience with the familiar feeling of being set up.