Simply A Masterpiece

Great Film overall

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

Great premise of a small-time magician who can see slightly into the future who gets dragged into a plot to prevent the detonation of a nuke. Starts strong with great, clever action and intelligent dialog particularly from Julianne Moore. Cage plays it mostly straight, not too over the top, to good effect. The whole thing is undone with a super cringey, unlikely and unnecessary romance featuring Jessica Biel. The chemistry is about as good as a 10 foot pile of sneezing powder and a leaf blower. Not to mention, Moore comes off far more attractive than the one-dimensional plot-filler Biel. Meanwhile, what exactly Cage's future-seeing powers will do to stop the nuke still isn't even revealed by the midpoint of the film, seemingly saving up a big twist that never really comes. Like so many Cage films you want to grab the screenwriter and smack him around a bit for having so much potential but then throwing it in the crapper. Oh well. I watched until the end but fans of Nic Cage and Julianne Moore will get value out of this one.

NextNext is smart, gripping and fun even though it may lose track for a bit and disappoint you at some points but all in all it definitely is a one time watch.

Now I want to read the book because this was a good premise, and the book has to be less stupid than the movie. I was yelling at the FBI throughout. Instead of using their resources to locate foreigners moving the heavy equipment needed to assemble the nuclear device, they think it will be easier to find one man who can see them coming. There appear to be dozens of people in this terrorist group, but somehow the plan is to find this one guy who can see 2 minutes into the future.Then, if they can get him to cooperate, their plan is to have him look 2 minutes into the future to see the detonation of the nuclear device and tell them where it happens. That is their plan. They are giving themselves 2 minutes to get to an unknown location in Los Angeles to stop a nuke. As we all know from previous movies, it takes 15 minutes to get anywhere in L.A.In a slight twist that I won't spoil here, they wind up having a bit more time, but they didn't know this when making their plan and using all their resources to find one guy.Also, the age difference between Cage and Biel is icky. Now I need to watch Valley Girl so I can like Nicholas Cage again, and I have a book to read.

Ghastly. Just terrible. I bothered to watch because IMDb said it was half good, but I think I'll stop believing the review percentages on this from now on; been bitten too often and either someone is getting paid to say how good movies are or there are a lot of people with no standard above B grade.The premise for 'Next' is fantastic. However, the execution, script, cheesy, cheesy, cheesy, utterly lame as all hell actual movie is another thing.I really like Nicolas Cage, it's just a shame I can't watch anything he's in anymore because all the stuff he makes is terrible, most likely due to no fault of his, since he's got to pay his bills, right.Both female leads, from the naïve - I'll walk around all wet in a towel in front of a total strange guy I picked up and gave a lift to, but hey, he won't rape me - to the hard-nosed ugly cow with the ugly voice, give this no credence, just add to the scratching of fingernails on a chalk board.The idea of a magician who's actually psychic... wow, what they COULD have done with this idea might have been fantastic. Don't worry, it isn't.Cheesy, cheesy, cheesy ... a stolen atomic thing going to blow everyone up... should have blown up the movie and not wasted my time.If you love bad B grade nonsense pretending to be interesting and romantic then you might enjoy this big gobble of trifling tinsel fare.Rubbish.