If the protagonist of Next were to use his ability to peer two minutes into the future before watching Next, he’d probably have enough to go on to skip it altogether. That’s how long it takes to tell the movie will be high on concept and low on content. To find out just how bad it gets, though, he’d have to watch the whole film.
Nicolas Cage plays Cris Johnson, a Las Vegas entertainer disguising his true abilities with a cheesy stage show. FBI Agent Callie Ferris (Julianne Moore) has decided that the best way to stop a smuggled nuclear bomb from detonating somewhere in the U.S. is to use Johnson’s talent for prognostication. Never mind the fact that he can only see two minutes into the future, giving her a very brief window in which to act if he were to see the bomb. That’s about the level of logic at which this film operates.
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RATING (0 to 5) = 2
— David Thomas
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