Next Day Air (2009)
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: 4.1/10
Critic Reviews: 22
Fresh: 4 | Rotten: 18
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
May 8, 2009 Wide
Sep 15, 2009
$10.0M
Summit Entertainment
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Cast
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Donald Faison
Leo Jackson -
Mike Epps
Brody -
Darius McCrary
Buddy -
Mos Def
Eric -
Wood Harris
Guch -
Yasmin Deliz
Chita -
Omari Hardwick
Shavoo -
Emilio Rivera
Bodega -
Cisco Reyes
Jesus -
Lauren London
Ivy -
Debbie Allen
Ms. Jackson -
Joe D. Jonz
Wade -
Lobo Sebastian
Rhino -
Julia Vera
Mama -
Lombardo Boyar
Carlos -
Malik Barnhardt
Hassie -
Shawn Michael Howard
Derrick -
Peedi Crakk
Hector -
Inny Clemons
Deuce -
Sundy Carter
On Scene News Reporter -
Kevin Benton
Old Man #2 -
Madison Shockley
Old Man #1 -
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Christina Ly
Kera's Friend -
Alexandra Merejo
Shavoo's Girl -
Luis Martinez
Louie -
Barry "Cassidy" Reese
Cassidy
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All Critics (68) | Top Critics (22) | Fresh (15) | Rotten (54) | DVD (2)
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.
Top CriticThere are no cops, not much farcical energy, and none of the satiric edge it would take to pull off the film's grim denouement.
I've seen much funnier films from Mike Epps.
An amusing tail of incompetent criminals.
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.
Far from the worst of Taran tino knockoffs, Next Day Air takes the standard formula of dimwits chasing bags of drugs to the 'hood.
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.
[Director Benny Boom] keeps the proceedings competent in the face of a labyrinthine plot that begs for more so-called flair than it deserves.
Updates the spirit of blaxploitation without feeling pressed to worship or satirize it.
Nearly every scene is a play on the perception that the accumulation of wealth will bring social validation and self-worth.
A screwball splatter flick which might best thought of as a campy cross of Cotton Comes to Harlem and No Country for Old Men.
Based on modest expectations Next Day Air delivers just the entertainment package it promises -- namely, dumb laughs laced with violence -- and it kinda works.
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.
It delivers neither laughs nor chills and offers no visuals more interesting than the Exit signs on the theater doors.
Best to refuse this delivery
Consistently unremarkable from its dullsville title on down.
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.
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.
Guy Ritchie never made anything this bad and boring on the worst Madonna-influenced, crypto-Kabbalistic day of his life.
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.
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I am doing this because, as unoriginal as this is, it is still wildly entertaining, pretty funny, and just a wacky crime caper. Roger Ebert was right to call it a bloody screwball comedy. Besides, the casting is pretty good, and their performances are not bad either. The film doesn't bullshit with the pacing, there's a lot of energy keeping things afloat, and the big setpiece at the end is pretty solid.
Give this a chance. It may be warmed over b-footage from much better films, and despite that backhanded compliment, it somehow ends up better than it should be. For what it is, it's fine enough. God knows it could be a lot worse.