Updates the spirit of blaxploitation without feeling pressed to worship or satirize it.
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.
Rated: R [See Full Rating] for pervasive language, drug content, some violence and brief sexuality.
Genre: Comedies
Theatrical Release:May 8, 2009 Wide
Box Office: $10,017,041
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...
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 triggers a series of events that forever changes the lives of ten people in Next Day Air, an uproarious action comedy featuring an all-star cast including Donald Faison, Mos Def and Debbie Allen.
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
Starring: Donald Faison, Mos Def, Mike Epps, Debbie Allen
Starring: Donald Faison, Mos Def, Mike Epps, Debbie Allen
Director: Benny Boom
Director: Benny Boom
Screenwriter: Blair Cobbs
Studio: Summit Entertainment
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Reviews for Next Day Air
Nearly every scene is a play on the perception that the accumulation of wealth will bring social validation and self-worth.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I barely detected moments that even seemed like they were supposed to be funny, let alone ones that actually were.
I like Donald Faison, Mos Def and Mike Epps - but I really disliked this movie and them in it.
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.
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...
the movie is truly an imitation because it lacks the quality and finesse that this sort of genre usually has
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