Next (2007) Review

By Carlos Ascencio

Next is an action movie with a twist. Cris Johnson (Cage) can see two minutes in to the future and uses his powers to protect his new girlfriend Liz (Biel) and evade FBI agent Callie (Moore) from capturing him in order to stop a nuke from going off on American soil.

First of all, Cris has a bad haircut, it’s ugly as hell. Second, Cris, for some odd reason, can see more than two minutes in to the future when he’s with Liz which makes no sense at all because when Liz is kidnapped by terrorists Cris still sees more than two minutes ahead. Third, at one point the FBI tells Liz that Cris is a psychopath and a liar but she doesn’t believe them and tells Cris of their plan and he escapes. I don’t know about you, but if the FBI told me that the dude I just picked up and barely know is a psychopath I’d damn well believe them.

The big kicker though, is that the last 30 minutes of the movie did not happen. Imagine that you’re watching a movie and then the protagonist does a lot of cool stuff like saving his girlfriend, leading an FBI team through a deadly situation, searching every path through a cargo ship at the same time, and finally killing the terrorist that’s holding his girlfriend hostage and then finding out that none of it actually happened because it was all a dream. That’s what happens in Next. The last half hour is a vision. Wow. The film explains why it just wasted our time by saying somehow Cris is connected to Liz and when he’s with her he can see really far in to the future. So, I guess that after he was extremely intimate with her he was able to see extremely far in to the future. This still doesn’t explain how he knew where she was going to be before he even met her. All in all, this isn’t a bad movie and you’ll like it if you enjoy some action mixed in with genetic abnormalities that allow you to see two minutes in to the future.

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