Next
Paramount Pictures | Release Date: April 27, 2007
6.0
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MauriceApr 23, 2007
Boring, annoying and forgettable. I hated it. Jessica Biel was the only acting and beauty highlight.
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KarenApr 23, 2007
Terrible. A huge waste of time from start to finish. No real character development, plot twists, or even decent special effects. Badly acted, annoying and with the most over-produced soundtrack in film history. A cinematic disaster and a Terrible. A huge waste of time from start to finish. No real character development, plot twists, or even decent special effects. Badly acted, annoying and with the most over-produced soundtrack in film history. A cinematic disaster and a mess to be seriously avoided.… Expand
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[Anonymous]Apr 23, 2007
This movie was awful. Nicolas Cage has chosen to be in some pretty bad movies. The list is getting longer and longer, Nick. You have chosen to be in disaster after disaster. Wicker Man, National Treasure, The Weather Man, World Trade Center, This movie was awful. Nicolas Cage has chosen to be in some pretty bad movies. The list is getting longer and longer, Nick. You have chosen to be in disaster after disaster. Wicker Man, National Treasure, The Weather Man, World Trade Center, Ghost Rider, Lord of War. "Next" is by far his biggest disappointment to date. What ever happened to the Cage we saw in 2003's Matchstick Men, or 2002's Adaptation, or even his 1995 Oscar winning performance in Leaving Las Vegas. Cage is falling apart. It seems that his first half was so much better than the second half he is continuing to destroy.… Expand
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ChadS.Apr 29, 2007
If you're not in the mood to see a pair of slumming actors cashing a paycheck, don't see "Next"; see their next movie, because Julianne Moore(as a FBI agent) cheats her adoring public this time out by being stingy with the facial If you're not in the mood to see a pair of slumming actors cashing a paycheck, don't see "Next"; see their next movie, because Julianne Moore(as a FBI agent) cheats her adoring public this time out by being stingy with the facial expressions(she uses one, a steely determination expressed through squinted eyes), and Nicolas Cage(who introduces the notion of an anti-action star) as a magician/psychic, is too in love with Liz(Jessica Biel), and too busy doing his multiplicty trick, to offer any personality quirks as a diversion from the routine gunplay and explosions. "Next" aspires to be, I don't know, "The Sum Of All Fears" meets "What The @#$* Do We Know?" If you're a big fan of "Groundhog Day", your blood will boil at how this film rips off Bill Murray's sweet and hillarious attempts to win Andie McDowell's heart. In "Next", Cris' first(and second, third, fourth...) contact to seduce Liz has all the charm... of an action movie. His acquisition of Liz's adoration is so dishonest, it has the effect of ruining that classic sequence from the Harold Ramis classic, because it reveals such a tactic of persistence as being somewhat sleazy. "Next" is "a movie for men who love movies"(from an old TBS tagline to promote the cable network's array of bad action flicks), and quantum physics.… Expand
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RogerD.May 20, 2007
Perhaps the worst movie of the year. Even if you buy the premise that a man can see two minutes into the future, the events in the movie are hard to believe. This is also the classic movie where the computer is constantly the "magic bullet." Perhaps the worst movie of the year. Even if you buy the premise that a man can see two minutes into the future, the events in the movie are hard to believe. This is also the classic movie where the computer is constantly the "magic bullet." Whenever there is an obstacle or a problem, somehow a computer process can fix it!… Expand
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SpongeeeJun 6, 2007
15 mins into the film, I wanted somebody to look into the future and tell me how the movie ends because it was horrible!
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PeterT.Apr 27, 2007
This movie is both unplausible lacks logic, real suspense and the (well-known) actors seemed a litte affected to me. There are better ways to spend money, for example to flush it down in a toilet.
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JIminyBBeatApr 27, 2007
What a total POS movie! Terrible on nearly every level with Cage turning in yet another dreadful, self-indulgent performance. But we all know he's a horrific, vain actor...the real mystery is what dirt Revolution Studios has on Julianne What a total POS movie! Terrible on nearly every level with Cage turning in yet another dreadful, self-indulgent performance. But we all know he's a horrific, vain actor...the real mystery is what dirt Revolution Studios has on Julianne Moore that she continues to make films under their moniker. She is SO much better than this nonsense...but she is pretty terrible in this film as well. After showing some promise in The Illusionist, Jessica Biel turns in a performance that makes her work on Seventh Heaven look like Meryl Streep. All that being said, it's still not outright laughable ala The Wicker Man. Why does crap like this get made? And why do I end up seeing it? =)… Expand
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MarkB.May 11, 2007
If the lady with the baby carriage in The French Connection could've seen two minutes into her future, she would've turned the corner to avoid the shooter...and her child would've grown up with a mom. If Chrissie, the girl who If the lady with the baby carriage in The French Connection could've seen two minutes into her future, she would've turned the corner to avoid the shooter...and her child would've grown up with a mom. If Chrissie, the girl who went nude swimming at the beginning of Jaws, could've seen two minutes into the future, she would've stayed onshore and had a pleasant, intimate evening with the guy who DIDN'T follow her into the water, causing the shark to swim elsewhere (resulting, of course, in a five-minute movie). And to be really frivolous about this, if Pee Wee in Porky's could've seen two minutes into the future, he could've anticipated which high school girls were going to step into the shower at any given time and claimed the peephole for himself! Obviously, Next's central premise is a fascinating one, and no doubt the Philip K. Dick story played it for all it was worth, but what Lee Tamahori (Die Another Day) and his writers have strangled out of it lurches between deadeningly generic (can we please, please for once have an action/ chase movie that DOESN'T feature a warehouse scene?) and frustratingly incomprehensible, as though it had no future (or past) recall whatsoever. Nicolas Cage plays a Vegas magician/ card player who uses said ability to eke out a living until his life is complicated by a grim FBI agent (Julianne Moore, who looks like she can't wait to get to her favorite leather bar after hours) who wants to use his skills to thwart a mad bomber...in, uh, two minutes?!? A perfunctory, tension-killing romance with Jessica Biel, whose future Cage has strange insights into, adds a smarmily sexist flavor to the proceedings, but the worst of Next's many felonies is a fraudulent pseudo-surprise ending that's the worst of its kind since the thoroughly illogical wrap-up to Alejandro Aja's exuberant shower-o'-gore High Tension two years ago with the notable difference that Aja's movie was actually WORKING before its last few minutes demolished it. You know, if Biel could see two minutes into the future, any script she's handed would induce her to immediately jump ahead to the towel scene and the "morning-after" scene in which her character is in bed covered with one of those miracle sheets that simultaneously covers her breasts and protects the movie's PG-13 rating, and having done so to turn it down, realizing that such movies are any attractive young actress's surest ticket to thirtysomething oblivion. If Cage could see two minutes into the future, HE'D automatically nix ANY action, horror or fantasy script handed him, realizing that (mediocre Marvel Comics adaptations released during slow moviegoing times of year notwithstanding) familiarity really is beginning to breed contempt. And if the normally sublime Moore (who's been through a really, really rough patch lately, giving one-note, nails-on-the-board performances in Freedomland, Trust the Man and this) could see two minutes into the future, she'd attach herself like Super Glue to Todd Haynes, who directed her finest work in Safe and Far From Heaven, waiting for the moment in which he's in a terrific mood so she can ask, nay BEG him to pull off a hat trick for her because she (and, God knows, ALL of her fans) desperately can use it. See how much more interesting, fun and worthwhile spending 90 minutes playing this little game can be than wasting them sitting through junk like Next?… Expand
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worleyjamersMay 26, 2013
A lazy film that breaks the most important rule of creative writing...lazy endings. This film has one of the laziest (worst) endings I have ever seen. Horrible film.
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DawdlingPoetNov 28, 2021
This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. While this was quite a diverting movie, it felt rather muddled. There were too many elements present, with the action element (which there is a bit of at the start and then dies down and it comes back after a fair while), a romantic element which felt to some extent rather unbelievable, that she went along with everything and forged the bond with him that she did and when she learnt 'the truth' that she believed him and so on and then there's the other sort of spiritual side, where he talks about his ability and starts to philosophise (if thats a word(?)) about those good ol' issues of life, destiny and fate.

There are some pretty cool action scenes in the movie and as I say, it is diverting enough, it should keep you somewhat entertained for the hour and a half or so but all the same, I felt that the way it was written wasn't great, ending up as being a fairly formulaic movie. While I did find the concept behind the story quite interesting (as im always interested in seeing movies that deal with the issues covered), its probably true to say that this is something thats been done better before, in other movies.

Its also true that Cage and Moore, as Chris Johnson and Callie Ferris, add an element of depth or quality to the movie, as I felt they both did well at portraying their characters, the others did ok but nothing special. If the script were tightened up and the story tweaked, so to speak, I think it could be better and I'd be rating it differently. I suppose nowadays when we go to watch whats marketed as an action movie, we expect that and the mish mashes present here just didn't entirely seem to 'gel'. I was quite sceptical to start with, like I say it is a bit confusing and throughout there are twists, I think it seems to have been made to confuse you in a way (you'd see what I mean if you see it), so you wonder has this really happened or not? and I suppose it sort of works in a 'ah thats clever' sense, when you realise the twists that are there but I just feel it wasn't done as well as it could have been, your left trying to decide if you understand it or not and the main reason I'm not sure if it really worked, for me anyway, was because of the ending. That was almost like the final straw for me, I wasn't too keen put it that way! in a movie like this, you like to have it end in a satisfying way, even if it is quite 'Hollywood', I wouldn't have minded too much I think but the way this ended, just left me with more questions and a sort of a bad taste in my mouth - that I'd followed it through to just be left at the end even more unsure of quite what happened and what I'm supposed to walk away from it thinking. It definately leaves you with more questions than anything else. The ending will definately annoy some, thats for sure, so don't see it if you want all to be clear cut and simple, this doesn't supply that! though if your somewhat intrigued by the themes present (fate, destiny, time travel) which are if only briefly touched upon, and also if you like movies with at least a bit of a science fiction based feel to them, then this may well be of some interest but, to me it didn't seem to quite 'gel properly together' and work all that well, especially as an action movie.

There are some pluses (some nice scenery shots, when Chris is with Liz at what looks like the Grand Canyon and there are some cool action and explosion shots present with the odd bit of CGI that works pretty well too) but its no means the best movie any of the main cast have worked on, put it that way. I do feel that it could have been made better but it felt as if it was written a bit too lazily, featuring too many predictable, even formulaic elements, with the main character developing a relationship with a previous stranger and what happens with that, eh, thats been done to death a bit and then there's the slower parts in the movie where Chris talks about fate and destiny and philosophises, that could be seen as being a bit too sort of cheesy and over done or predictable too. Its a bit too average and just doesn't work as well as I'd hoped.

The ending I felt was the biggest disappointment and will most likely exasperate your confusion with it, as far as the story is concerned, I feel. It is clever in one sense but I can't help but feel that it isn't properly explained well enough to really work, the way it seems they tried to make it work. If your like me then by the time the credits are rolling at the end, you'll likely be thinking 'what? thats it?!' so that didn't help at all... I would have liked it to go on a bit more, for it to continue and tie up the loose ends, I think it did possibly end a bit too soon and I couldn't help but feel that it was cheating the audience somewhat at the very end.… Expand
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