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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...

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

Director: Benny Boom

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Tomatometer	Critic	Review	Category
7/10	Aaron Hillis	Updates the spirit of blaxploitation without feeling pressed to worship or satirize it. Full Review \| Comment \| Nov., 17 2009 04:32 PM	GreenCine
	Mark Palermo	Nearly every scene is a play on the perception that the accumulation of wealth will bring social validation and self-worth. Full Review \| Comment \| Nov., 04 2009 08:32 AM	Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia)
3/5	Pete Hammond	Click to read the article Full Review \| Comment \| Sep., 08 2009 03:16 AM	Hollywood.com
C-	Clay Cane	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 \| Comment \| Jul., 04 2009 10:08 AM	BET.com
1/5	Dan Lybarger	It delivers neither laughs nor chills and offers no visuals more interesting than the Exit signs on the theater doors. Full Review \| Comment \| Jun., 07 2009 11:05 PM	eFilmCritic.com
2/4	Michael Phillips	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 \| Comment \| May., 29 2009 03:51 PM	Chicago Tribune
1.5/4	John Wirt	Best to refuse this delivery Full Review \| Comment \| May., 15 2009 10:17 AM	Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA)
0.5/5	Marc Savlov	Consistently unremarkable from its dullsville title on down. Full Review \| Comment \| May., 14 2009 11:15 AM	Austin Chronicle
1.5/4	Matt Brunson	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 \| Comment \| May., 13 2009 04:10 PM	Creative Loafing
	Armond White	Filmgoers who think outside the artmovie box will discover that the artful and enjoyable Next Day Air offers an episode of 21st-century black American life that August Wilson never got to. Full Review \| 5 Comments \| May., 13 2009 11:02 AM	New York Press
.5/5	Ken Hanke	Guy Ritchie never made anything this bad and boring on the worst Madonna-influenced, crypto-Kabbalistic day of his life. Full Review \| 2 Comments \| May., 13 2009 08:22 AM	Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
1/5	Jeffrey Lyles	Doesn't deliver anything to make you want to pick it up. No need to return to sender, just don't sign off on it. Full Review \| Comment \| May., 13 2009 07:39 AM	Gazette (MD)
	Michelle Orange	There are no cops, not much farcical energy, and none of the satiric edge it would take to pull off the film�s grim denouement. Full Review \| Comment \| May., 13 2009 03:15 AM	Village Voice
	Ben Lyons	I�ve seen much funnier films from Mike Epps. Full Review \| Comment \| May., 11 2009 01:41 PM	At the Movies
	Ben Mankiewicz	An amusing tail of incompetent criminals. Full Review \| Comment \| May., 11 2009 01:39 PM	At the Movies
D-	Eric D. Snider	I barely detected moments that even seemed like they were supposed to be funny, let alone ones that actually were. Full Review \| Comment \| May., 10 2009 05:08 PM	EricDSnider.com
3/10	Jackie K. Cooper	I like Donald Faison, Mos Def and Mike Epps - but I really disliked this movie and them in it. Full Review \| Comment \| May., 10 2009 02:52 PM	jackiekcooper.com
4/4	Kam Williams	A screwball comedy/splatter flick which might best thought of as a campy cross of Cotton Comes to Harlem and No Country for Old Men. Full Review \| Comment \| May., 09 2009 04:24 PM	NewsBlaze
2/4	John Beifuss	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 \| 1 Comment \| May., 08 2009 03:04 PM	Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)
1.5/5	Kevin Carr	the movie is truly an imitation because it lacks the quality and finesse that this sort of genre usually has Full Review \| Comment \| May., 08 2009 02:47 PM	7M Pictures

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