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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 [More]

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

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the movie is truly an imitation because it lacks the quality and finesse that this sort of genre usually has

Full Review Source: 7M Pictures | comment Comment
05/08/09
Kevin Carr
Kevin Carr
7M Pictures

Best to refuse this delivery

Full Review Source: Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA) | comment Comment
05/15/09
John Wirt
John Wirt
Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA)

The filmmakers behind Next Day Air probably have posters of Guy Ritchie and Quentin Tarantino lining their bedroom walls.

Full Review Source: Arizona Republic | comment Comment
05/06/09
Randy Cordova
Randy Cordova
Arizona Republic

An amusing tail of incompetent criminals.

Full Review Source: At the Movies | comment Comment
05/11/09
Ben Mankiewicz
Ben Mankiewicz
At the Movies

I’ve seen much funnier films from Mike Epps.

Full Review Source: At the Movies | comment Comment
05/11/09
Ben Lyons
Ben Lyons
At the Movies

Consistently unremarkable from its dullsville title on down.

Full Review Source: Austin Chronicle | comment Comment
05/14/09
Marc Savlov
Marc Savlov
Austin Chronicle

A very pleasant surprise, Next Day Air is the rare crime comedy that does justice to both sides of the equation.

Full Review Source: AV Club | comment 1 Comment
05/07/09
Nathan Rabin
Nathan Rabin
AV Club

Next Day Air is unecessarily violent and completely pointless. One of the worst films of the year.

Full Review Source: BDK Reviews | comment Comment
05/08/09
Kevin McCarthy
Kevin McCarthy
BDK Reviews

To add insult to injury, the mindless comedy turns into a mindless shoot 'em up. Mark this package delivery refused.

Full Review Source: Beliefnet | comment Comment
05/07/09
Nell Minow
Nell Minow
Beliefnet

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.

Full Review Source: BET.com | comment Comment
07/04/09
Clay Cane
Clay Cane
BET.com

This is a movie that mines its plot from the Stone Age (or is it Stoned Age?) of caper comedies.

Full Review Source: Boston Globe | comment Comment
05/07/09
Janice Page
Janice Page
Boston Globe

Boom's comedy is a trap: We like these dudes, and know that while crime does pay, it always takes a deadly cut.

Full Review Source: Boxoffice Magazine | comment Comment
05/07/09
Amy Nicholson
Amy Nicholson
Boxoffice Magazine

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.

Full Review Source: BrianOrndorf.com | comment Comment
05/07/09
Brian Orndorf
Brian Orndorf
BrianOrndorf.com

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.

Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times | comment 7 Comments
05/07/09
Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
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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.

Full Review Source: Chicago Tribune | comment Comment
05/29/09
Michael Phillips
Michael Phillips
Chicago Tribune

Nearly every scene is a play on the perception that the accumulation of wealth will bring social validation and self-worth.

Full Review Source: Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia) | comment Comment
11/04/09
Mark Palermo
Mark Palermo
Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia)

It's an oddly lethargic production, heavy in foul language and gun-pointing, but slow-witted and uninspired.

Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid | comment Comment
05/07/09
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid

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...

Full Review Source: Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) | comment 1 Comment
05/08/09
John Beifuss
John Beifuss
Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)

Violence overshadows humor in urban action comedy.

Full Review Source: Common Sense Media | comment Comment
05/08/09
Sandie Angulo Chen
Sandie Angulo Chen
Common Sense Media

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.

Full Review Source: Creative Loafing | comment Comment
05/13/09
Matt Brunson
Matt Brunson
Creative Loafing
 
 
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