Midweek Mention... Next

Based very loosely on "The Golden Man" by Philip K. Dick, NEXT (2007) tells the story of Chris Johnson (Nic Cage), cursed with the ability to see 2 minutes into the future, except for when the plot demands it. Using his gifts to make modest wins in Las Vegas casinos and hiding behind the façade of being a cheap stage magician, Johnson finds himself reluctantly drawn into solving a terrorist plot by FBI agent Callie Ferris (Julianne Moore).

One of the stupidest movies ever made, and I mean that as a compliment, this is 90 minutes of fun featuring a fairly subdued Cage - though his hair is magnificent - and committed and earnest performances from Moore and Jessica Biel as love interest Liz, who is so far out of Johnson's league they might as well be playing different sports. The true star here though is the preposterous screenplay, with its mix of sincere but silly and unintentionally funny.

Huge spoilers I guess in the sense that we discuss the fact that two-thirds of the films running time is devoted to a series of events that never happened because it was all a dream.

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