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Next Day Air (2009)

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Average Rating: 3.9/10
Reviews Counted: 68
Fresh: 14 | Rotten: 54

Rife with half-baked jokes and excessive violence, Next Day Air is an uninspired stoner comedy.

Average Rating: 4/10
Critic Reviews: 20
Fresh: 4 | Rotten: 16

Rife with half-baked jokes and excessive violence, Next Day Air is an uninspired stoner comedy.

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An overnight drug shipment is sent to the wrong recipient, prompting a frantic race to recover the package before the contents are revealed in this fast-paced crime comedy starring Donald Faison, Mos Def, and Mike Epps. When Brody (Epps) and Guch (Wood Harris) receive a package containing ten kilos of grade-A cocaine, they assume their financial woes are a thing of the past. The package was intended for their next-door neighbors, but the whacked-out courier (Donald Faison) delivered it to the

R, 1 hr. 24 min.

Action & Adventure, Comedy

Directed By: Benny Boom

Written By: Blair Cobbs

In Theaters: May 8, 2009 Wide

On DVD: Sep 15, 2009

Box Office:$10.0M

Summit Entertainment

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.

May 29, 2009 Full Review Source: Chicago Tribune

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Michael Phillips

Chicago Tribune

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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.

May 13, 2009 Full Review Source: Village Voice

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Michelle Orange

Village Voice

Top Critic

I've seen much funnier films from Mike Epps.

May 11, 2009 Full Review Source: At the Movies

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Ben Lyons

At the Movies

Top Critic

An amusing tail of incompetent criminals.

May 11, 2009 Full Review Source: At the Movies

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Ben Mankiewicz

At the Movies

Top Critic

He may be a first-time feature director, but music video master Benny Boom clearly knows how to pull a midlevel movie together. That's harder than it sounds.

May 8, 2009 Full Review Source: New York Daily News

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Elizabeth Weitzman

New York Daily News

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Far from the worst of Taran tino knockoffs, Next Day Air takes the standard formula of dimwits chasing bags of drugs to the 'hood.

May 8, 2009 Full Review Source: New York Post

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Kyle Smith

New York Post

Top Critic

Next Day Air is well-intentioned but ill-thought, an amateur work by a first time filmmaking team trying to make the kind of film they like to watch, but ignorant of what makes those kinds of films work.

April 20, 2011 Full Review Source: ComingSoon.net

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Joshua Starnes

ComingSoon.net

[Director Benny Boom] keeps the proceedings competent in the face of a labyrinthine plot that begs for more so-called flair than it deserves.

December 17, 2009 Full Review Source: Cinematical

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William Goss

Cinematical

Updates the spirit of blaxploitation without feeling pressed to worship or satirize it.

November 17, 2009 Full Review Source: GreenCine

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Aaron Hillis

GreenCine

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

November 4, 2009 Full Review | Comment

Mark Palermo

Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia) Source: Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia)

A screwball splatter flick which might best thought of as a campy cross of Cotton Comes to Harlem and No Country for Old Men.

September 11, 2009 Full Review Source: Sly Fox

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Kam Williams

Sly Fox

Based on modest expectations Next Day Air delivers just the entertainment package it promises -- namely, dumb laughs laced with violence -- and it kinda works.

September 8, 2009 Full Review Source: Hollywood.com

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Pete Hammond

Hollywood.com

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.

July 4, 2009 Full Review Source: BET.com

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Clay Cane

BET.com

It delivers neither laughs nor chills and offers no visuals more interesting than the Exit signs on the theater doors.

June 7, 2009 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com

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Dan Lybarger

eFilmCritic.com

Best to refuse this delivery

May 15, 2009 Full Review Source: Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA)

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John Wirt

Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA) Source: Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA)

Consistently unremarkable from its dullsville title on down.

May 14, 2009 Full Review Source: Austin Chronicle

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Marc Savlov

Austin Chronicle

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.

May 13, 2009 Full Review Source: Creative Loafing

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Matt Brunson

Creative Loafing

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.

May 13, 2009 Full Review Source: New York Press

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Armond White

New York Press

Guy Ritchie never made anything this bad and boring on the worst Madonna-influenced, crypto-Kabbalistic day of his life.

May 13, 2009 Full Review Source: Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

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Ken Hanke

Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

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.

May 13, 2009 Full Review | Comment

Jeffrey Lyles

Gazette (MD) Source: Gazette (MD)

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There is nothing terribly original about the plot, situations, or characters in this film. It all comes off like a specifically ethnic take on the works of Quentin Tarantino, Elmore Leonard, or Guy Ritchie. For those reasons, I should probably give this thing 2.5-3 at best. However, I'm giving this a mild

February 28, 2011

Chris Weber

Super Reviewer

I actually kind of liked this movie. It was kind of boring in some parts but it gets really entertaining in the last 20 minutes. It was also a lot funnier than i thought it would be. It's not really funny or hilarious but it has its moment. I liked it a lot more than i expected too. It's not a great movie but i thought it was good. B-

September 11, 2010

Richard C

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