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Next Day Air

EMAILPRINTSummit Entertainment

Next Day Air reviews
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5.5 User Score:

Mixed or average reviews

Based on 20 critic reviews
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Movie Info

Genre(s): Action  |  Comedy  |  Crime

Written by: Blair Cobbs

Directed by: Benny Boom

Release Date:
Theatrical: May 8, 2009
DVD: September 15, 2009

Running Time: 90 minutes, Color

Origin: USA

Summary

RATING: R for pervasive language, drug content, some violence and brief sexuality

Starring Donald Faison, Mike Epps, Wood Harris, Omari Hardwick, Emilio Rivera, Darius McCrary, Cisco Reyes, and Mos Def

Life isn't going smoothly for Leo Jackson. He still lives at home, he just broke up with his co-worker girlfriend and he's had so many complaints about his sloppy work habits that his own mother is threatening to fire him. But Leo isn't one to let a few bad breaks ruin his day—as long as he's got plenty of weed to take his mind off his troubles. But when the wacked-out courier accidentally delivers a box containing 10 kilos of high quality cocaine to the wrong apartment, it sets in motion a hilarious and harrowing chain of events that could cost him his life. (Summit Entertainment)

What The Critics Said

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90

The New York Times Nathan Lee

With a script that snaps, characters that pop, a blaze of streetwise attitude and enough firepower to pulverize a significant chunk of South Philadelphia, Next Day Air nears neo-blaxploitation perfection. Good things come in strange packages.

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75

The Onion (A.V. Club) Nathan Rabin

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

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75

Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

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.

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70

Chicago Reader Cliff Doerksen

Director Benny Boom and screenwriter Blair Cobbs pull off the tough trick of investing profoundly stupid characters with humanity, while cinematographer David Armstrong plays gleefully with the grime-o-vision palette of '70s blaxploitation flicks.

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60

New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman

He may be a first-time feature ­director, but music video master Benny Boom clearly knows how to pull a midlevel movie ­together.

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50

LA Weekly Michelle Orange

Benny Boom built his reputation directing music videos and commercials, and his first feature, Next Day Air, falls somewhere between the blunt-force visuals of the former and the focus-grouped formulas of the latter.

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50

Chicago Tribune Michael Phillips

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.

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50

Miami Herald Rene Rodriguez

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

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50

Premiere Rob Calvert

Predictable, and stereotypical.

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50

USA Today Claudia Puig

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.

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50

New York Post Kyle Smith

Routine stuff, but things move quickly, with several offhand funny moments. Mos Def is hilarious in a cameo as another delivery guy.

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50

TV Guide Perry Seibert

The right combination of goofy character behavior, action set pieces, and narrative drive to keep the movie from ever being boring.

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40

The Hollywood Reporter Stephen Farber

There's a serious miscalculation when the lighthearted hijinks suddenly give way to a climactic scene of brutal violence.

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40

Variety Justin Chang

An altogether bumbling excuse for an action-comedy.

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40

Washington Post Dan Kois

I wished Next Day Air were funnier. In the end, it's a fitfully amusing, sloppy comedy that doesn't work very hard for your 10 bucks.

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38

Boston Globe Janice Page

None of these characters provides more than a smattering of laughs, but Def is the one guy we might like to see more of, if only because his role is small and better executed than it deserves.

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30

Los Angeles Times Sam Adams

That's about all Next Day Air can muster by way of invention, trying to slap a new face on a gaggle of rote gestures in a vain attempt to cover its own uselessness. But no matter how big the guns it draws, every shot is a dud.

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25

San Francisco Chronicle Peter Hartlaub

This movie could really use an Avon Barksdale, but even actor Wood Harris, who played drug kingpin Barksdale in "The Wire," seems a bit lost.

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25

Entertainment Weekly Adam Markovitz

If the movie doesn't even care about its characters, then how can we?

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11

Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov

Might make a terrific double bill with the equally inane (but considerably more entertaining) "Con Air," with the French electonica duo Air chirruping in the background. But, you know, only if you're stoned out of your head.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this movie is 5.5 (out of 10) based on 4 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

ken f gave it a9:
What Hollywood needs a good comedy and action flick to give it life.

Chad S gave it a6:
[***SELF-POLICING SPOILER ALERT***] Pothead bank robbers who forgo the money in the safe and steal security tapes instead, by way of their absolute incompetence, announce themselves as lightweight criminals, potentially, fun-lovin' ones. The opening caper in "Next Day Air" sets the audience up for a stoner action comedy: the black "Pineapple Express". But during one of the film's many flashbacks, Brody(Mike Epps) acts more like a crackhead bank robber when he severs another man's tongue. Too gangsta, perhaps? Yes. Too gangsta, by half. Played for laughs, Brody heard it wrong again(at the bank, needless to say, he was supposed to grab the green stuff), and sheepishly holds the tongue tip in his hand. His inclination for brutal violence is unexpected, a total buzzkill; it changes the tone of "Next Day Air", therefore killing the comedy in the process. Wrong move. Here's another. Although Jesus(Cisco Reyes) shows no outward signs of being stoned, the drug seller takes an uncommonly long time to figure out that Leo(Donald Faison) delivered the parcel to the wrong apartment(the courier had an empty handtruck). The pedestrian plotting doesn't stop there. "Next Day Air) acts as if it's running on a shoestring budget since Brody and his colleagues conduct their drug deal in such close proximity to the cocaine bricks' rightful owners. During pre-production, the filmmaker should have made budgetary allowances for one more locale. The final shootout is more than inevitable; it's contrived. But the film has energy, if not logic.

Keon M gave it a3:
Movie had the potential to be very hilarious. Mr Epps you should of been the delivery driver along side Def and the other guy what is his name from bring it on, or scream, no no. Hold on let me google him, Donald Fiason, don't get me wrong I like him but he sould of been Mike Epps character he has the dumb blonde comedy that would of fit good there but Epps was disappointing. I love all his movies and rate him very highly in comedy. and he had his moments but not his best at all. Keep trying find something to redeem yourself. you and Mos Def in a movie would be Nice.

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