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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 [More]

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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An ungainly hybrid of stoner comedy and gangsta drama.

Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times | comment Comment
05/08/09
Sam Adams
Sam Adams
Los Angeles Times
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A messy and unpleasant genre mashup that needed at least two or three rewrites before shooting started.

Full Review Source: Giant Magazine | comment Comment
05/08/09
Ethan Alter
Ethan Alter
Giant Magazine

It's an oddly lethargic production, heavy in foul language and gun-pointing, but slow-witted and uninspired.

Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid | comment Comment
05/07/09
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid

Violence overshadows humor in urban action comedy.

Full Review Source: Common Sense Media | comment Comment
05/08/09
Sandie Angulo Chen
Sandie Angulo Chen
Common Sense Media

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...

Full Review Source: Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) | comment 1 Comment
05/08/09
John Beifuss
John Beifuss
Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)

Tired gangsta posturing and crude violence, delivered with a complete lack of style.

Full Review Source: Las Vegas Weekly | comment Comment
05/07/09
Josh Bell
Josh Bell
Las Vegas Weekly

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.

Full Review Source: Creative Loafing | comment Comment
05/13/09
Matt Brunson
Matt Brunson
Creative Loafing

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.

Full Review Source: BET.com | comment Comment
07/04/09
Clay Cane
Clay Cane
BET.com

the movie is truly an imitation because it lacks the quality and finesse that this sort of genre usually has

Full Review Source: 7M Pictures | comment Comment
05/08/09
Kevin Carr
Kevin Carr
7M Pictures

An altogether bumbling excuse for an action-comedy.

Full Review Source: Variety | comment Comment
05/07/09
Justin Chang
Justin Chang
Variety
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I like Donald Faison, Mos Def and Mike Epps - but I really disliked this movie and them in it.

Full Review Source: jackiekcooper.com | comment Comment
05/10/09
Jackie K. Cooper
Jackie K. Cooper
jackiekcooper.com

Good lord this movie is boring!

Full Review Source: E! Online | comment Comment
05/08/09
N.V. Cooper
N.V. Cooper
E! Online

The filmmakers behind Next Day Air probably have posters of Guy Ritchie and Quentin Tarantino lining their bedroom walls.

Full Review Source: Arizona Republic | comment Comment
05/06/09
Randy Cordova
Randy Cordova
Arizona Republic
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A fiasco. A flop. A failure's failure. Next Day Air aims low but still misses the target.

Full Review Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune | comment Comment
05/07/09
Colin Covert
Colin Covert
Minneapolis Star Tribune
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Any shreds of comedy are literally blown away in a violent climax that sees most of the cast shooting at each other, complete with graphic blood spurts.

Full Review Source: MSNBC | comment Comment
05/07/09
Alonso Duralde
Alonso Duralde
MSNBC

Next Day Air is a bloody screwball comedy, a film of high spirits. It tells a complicated story with acute timing and clarity, and gives us drug-dealing lowlifes who are almost poetic in their clockwork dialogue.

Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times | comment 7 Comments
05/07/09
Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
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Next Day Air is a talentless travesty, a trying torture fest that wants to believe it's cool and contemporary.

Full Review Source: PopMatters | comment Comment
05/08/09
Bill Gibron
Bill Gibron
PopMatters

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

Full Review Source: Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) | comment 2 Comments
05/13/09
Ken Hanke
Ken Hanke
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

Screenwriter Blair Cobbs delivers some good lines, but the inconsistent tone and overacting by some of the lesser actors sabotage his efforts.

Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | comment Comment
05/08/09
Peter Hartlaub
Peter Hartlaub
San Francisco Chronicle
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Guy Ritchie called. He wants all of his movies back.

Full Review Source: Kansas City Star | comment Comment
05/08/09
Jason Heck
Jason Heck
Kansas City Star
 
 
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