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Next Day Air (2009)

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Reviews Counted:60

Fresh:13

Rotten:47

Average Rating:4/10

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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Boom's comedy is a trap: We like these dudes, and know that while crime does pay, it always takes a deadly cut.

Full Review Source: Boxoffice Magazine | comment Comment
05/07/09
Amy Nicholson
Amy Nicholson
Boxoffice Magazine

Reprehensible trash that has no business showing up on a theatrical marquee. With no one to care about, nothing to learn, and no place to go, the miserable plot just sits there and rots.

Full Review Source: DustinPutman.com | comment Comment
05/07/09
Dustin Putman
Dustin Putman
DustinPutman.com

It's hard to make a movie that ends with blazing guns and dead bodies and still send the audience away laughing, but Next Day Air finds the right drive-in movie tone.

Full Review Source: Philadelphia Daily News | comment Comment
05/07/09
Gary Thompson
Gary Thompson
Philadelphia Daily News

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

...an oppressive parade of unsavory and unlikeable losers.

Full Review Source: Sacramento News & Review | comment Comment
05/07/09
Jim Lane
Jim Lane
Sacramento News & Review

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

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

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

To add insult to injury, the mindless comedy turns into a mindless shoot 'em up. Mark this package delivery refused.

Full Review Source: Beliefnet | comment Comment
05/07/09
Nell Minow
Nell Minow
Beliefnet

An altogether bumbling excuse for an action-comedy.

Full Review Source: Variety | comment Comment
05/07/09
Justin Chang
Justin Chang
Variety

A very pleasant surprise, Next Day Air is the rare crime comedy that does justice to both sides of the equation.

Full Review Source: AV Club | comment 1 Comment
05/07/09
Nathan Rabin
Nathan Rabin
AV Club

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

Winds up seeming less pleasurably anarchic than simply messy and crude.

Full Review Source: One Guy's Opinion | comment Comment
05/07/09
Frank Swietek
Frank Swietek
One Guy's Opinion

The thing about a script comprising 60 percent words that rhyme with stitch, spit and mothertruckers is it doesn't allow for many jokes.

Full Review Source: Metromix.com | comment Comment
05/07/09
Matt Pais
Matt Pais
Metromix.com

Air is an interesting misfire, but often an irritatingly erratic viewing experience that would've profited greatly from a good old-fashioned dose of clear-headed concentration.

Full Review Source: BrianOrndorf.com | comment Comment
05/07/09
Brian Orndorf
Brian Orndorf
BrianOrndorf.com

An uneasy mix of farcical slapstick and comedy of errors with a violent, blood-soaked tale of inner-city crime.

Full Review Source: Miami Herald | comment Comment
05/07/09
Rene Rodriguez
Rene Rodriguez
Miami Herald

a rare type of disaster... putrid

Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com | comment Comment
05/07/09
Sean O'Connell
Sean O'Connell
Filmcritic.com

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 laughs come easily enough. But the violence and grim finale drag this coke-deal-gone-wrong comedy into a hole it can't giggle its way out of.

Full Review Source: Orlando Sentinel | comment Comment
05/06/09
Roger Moore
Roger Moore
Orlando Sentinel

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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