the movie is truly an imitation because it lacks the quality and finesse that this sort of genre usually has
Next Day Air (2009)
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Reviews Counted:59
Fresh:13
Rotten:46
Average Rating:3.9/10
Consensus: Rife with half-baked jokes and excessive violence, Next Day Air is an uninspired stoner comedy.
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis:
When two bumbling criminals (Mike Epps and Wood Harris) accidentally receive a package of grade-A cocaine, they think they've hit the jackpot. But when they try to cash in on their luck, it...
When two bumbling criminals (Mike Epps and Wood Harris) accidentally receive a package of grade-A cocaine, they think they've hit the jackpot. But when they try to cash in on their luck, it triggers a series of events that forever changes the lives of ten people in Next Day Air, an uproarious action comedy featuring an all-star cast including Donald Faison, Mos Def and Debbie Allen.
Smalltime hoods Brody (Mike Epps) and Guch (Wood Harris) have seen better days. But when a wacked-out courier (Donald Faison) accidentally brings them a box containing 10 kilos of high-quality cocaine meant for their next-door neighbors, it sets in motion a hilarious and harrowing chain of events that could cost all of them their lives.
Brody and Guch immediately arrange to sell the coke to Brody’s drug dealer cousin (Omari Hardwick) and his tightlipped bodyguard (Darius McCrary). But when the intended recipients of the package, wannabe gangster Jesus (Cisco Reyes) and his feisty girlfriend (Yasmin Deliz), realize the box hasn’t arrived, they set out on a desperate search to find it before ruthless drug kingpin Bodega Diablo (Emilio Rivera) notices it’s missing.
But they’re too late. Furious over the loss of his shipment, mob boss Bodega will stop at nothing to get the drugs back. With Brody and Guch’s drug deal about to go down, all parties are on a collision course that’s almost certain to end in heavy gunfire. And whoever’s still standing when the smoke clears could walk away with nearly a million dollars in cash and drugs!
--© Summit Entertainment
Starring: Donald Faison, Mos Def, Mike Epps, Debbie Allen
Starring: Donald Faison, Mos Def, Mike Epps, Debbie Allen
Director: Benny Boom
Director: Benny Boom
Screenwriter: Blair Cobbs
Studio: Summit Entertainment
Reviews for Next Day Air
The filmmakers behind Next Day Air probably have posters of Guy Ritchie and Quentin Tarantino lining their bedroom walls.
A very pleasant surprise, Next Day Air is the rare crime comedy that does justice to both sides of the equation.
Next Day Air is unecessarily violent and completely pointless. One of the worst films of the year.
To add insult to injury, the mindless comedy turns into a mindless shoot 'em up. Mark this package delivery refused.
I admire Benny Boom's effort; he wanted to make a movie and did it. One can only hope his next venture in Hollywood will be more original and sharp.
This is a movie that mines its plot from the Stone Age (or is it Stoned Age?) of caper comedies.
Boom's comedy is a trap: We like these dudes, and know that while crime does pay, it always takes a deadly cut.
Air is an interesting misfire, but often an irritatingly erratic viewing experience that would've profited greatly from a good old-fashioned dose of clear-headed concentration.
Next Day Air is a bloody screwball comedy, a film of high spirits. It tells a complicated story with acute timing and clarity, and gives us drug-dealing lowlifes who are almost poetic in their clockwork dialogue.
Next Day Air is sort of bracing, though it isn't very good: Its total lack of dramatic and comic bearings, to say nothing of a point, keeps you wondering about the next fatality, in a half-interested way.
Nearly every scene is a play on the perception that the accumulation of wealth will bring social validation and self-worth.
It's an oddly lethargic production, heavy in foul language and gun-pointing, but slow-witted and uninspired.
Forty years from now, this may be fascinating for its relentless early 21st-century 'urban' slang and attitude. Let's hope it also seems antique for the idea that guns are as accessible as Kleenex...
Here's a project so ill-conceived that it finds room in its cast for the talented Mos Def but then bungles that gift by giving him the smallest role among the principal cast members.
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