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Next Day Air (2009)

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Reviews Counted:18

Fresh:4

Rotten:14

Average Rating:4.2/10

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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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.

Full Review Source: Chicago Tribune | comment Comment
05/29/09
Michael Phillips
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.

Full Review Source: Village Voice | comment Comment
05/13/09
Michelle Orange
Michelle Orange
Village Voice
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I’ve seen much funnier films from Mike Epps.

Full Review Source: At the Movies | comment Comment
05/11/09
Ben Lyons
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An amusing tail of incompetent criminals.

Full Review Source: At the Movies | comment Comment
05/11/09
Ben Mankiewicz
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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.

Full Review Source: New York Daily News | comment Comment
05/08/09
Elizabeth Weitzman
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.

Full Review Source: New York Post | comment Comment
05/08/09
Kyle Smith
Kyle Smith
New York Post
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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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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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First-time feature director Benny Boom and writer Blair Cobbs get a lot of help from their cast, and the banter is often akin to a thug Three Stooges routine. But blood and predictability sour things in the end.

Full Review Source: Detroit News | comment Comment
05/08/09
Tom Long
Tom Long
Detroit News
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Stripped of f-bombs and b-words, Blair Cobb's screenplay could make a fortune- cookie threat. "You will see a bad movie today."

Full Review Source: Denver Post | comment Comment
05/08/09
Lisa Kennedy
Lisa Kennedy
Denver Post
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In the end, it's a fitfully amusing, sloppy comedy that doesn't work very hard for your 10 bucks.

Full Review Source: Washington Post | comment Comment
05/08/09
Dan Kois
Dan Kois
Washington Post
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With a script that snaps and characters that pop, Next Day Air nears neo-blaxploitation perfection.

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05/08/09
Nathan Lee
Nathan Lee
New York Times
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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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Next Day Air can't decide whether it's a broad stoner comedy or a gritty Tarantino-esque action flick. The humor is there, but violence brings the laughter to an abrupt halt.

Full Review Source: USA Today | comment Comment
05/07/09
Claudia Puig
Claudia Puig
USA Today
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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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This is a movie that mines its plot from the Stone Age (or is it Stoned Age?) of caper comedies.

Full Review Source: Boston Globe | comment Comment
05/07/09
Janice Page
Janice Page
Boston Globe
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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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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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