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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.

Genre: Comedies

US 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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[Director Benny Boom] keeps the proceedings competent in the face of a labyrinthine plot that begs for more so-called flair than it deserves.

Full Review Source: Cinematical | comment Comment
12/17/09
William Goss
William Goss
Cinematical

Updates the spirit of blaxploitation without feeling pressed to worship or satirize it.

Full Review Source: GreenCine | comment Comment
11/17/09
Aaron Hillis
Aaron Hillis
GreenCine

Nearly every scene is a play on the perception that the accumulation of wealth will bring social validation and self-worth.

Full Review Source: Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia) | comment Comment
11/04/09
Mark Palermo
Mark Palermo
Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia)

Based on modest expectations Next Day Air delivers just the entertainment package it promises -- namely, dumb laughs laced with violence -- and it kinda works.

Full Review Source: Hollywood.com | comment Comment
09/08/09
Pete Hammond
Pete Hammond
Hollywood.com

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

It delivers neither laughs nor chills and offers no visuals more interesting than the Exit signs on the theater doors.

Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | comment Comment
06/07/09
Dan Lybarger
Dan Lybarger
eFilmCritic.com

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

Best to refuse this delivery

Full Review Source: Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA) | comment Comment
05/15/09
John Wirt
John Wirt
Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA)

Consistently unremarkable from its dullsville title on down.

Full Review Source: Austin Chronicle | comment Comment
05/14/09
Marc Savlov
Marc Savlov
Austin Chronicle

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

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.

Full Review Source: New York Press | comment 5 Comments
05/13/09
Armond White
Armond White
New York Press

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)

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.

Full Review Source: Gazette (MD) | comment Comment
05/13/09
Jeffrey Lyles
Jeffrey Lyles
Gazette (MD)

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

I’ve seen much funnier films from Mike Epps.

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

An amusing tail of incompetent criminals.

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

I barely detected moments that even seemed like they were supposed to be funny, let alone ones that actually were.

Full Review Source: EricDSnider.com | comment Comment
05/10/09
Eric D. Snider
Eric D. Snider
EricDSnider.com

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

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.

Full Review Source: NewsBlaze | comment Comment
05/09/09
Kam Williams
Kam Williams
NewsBlaze

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)
 
 
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