Lee Eisenberg After "Leaving Las Vegas" got released and Nicolas Cage won an Oscar for it, lots of people assumed that he would be a doyen of cerebral movies. Lo and behold, his repertoire since then has been a series of brainless flicks. "Next" is one of them, starring Cage as a man who can see into the future. Totally predictable. I do NOT recommend it.

Fluke_Skywalker 'Next' has a potentially fun gimmick that is completely wasted thanks to its ham-fisted script and sloppy directing. It doesn't take long for the plot holes to pile up, and because the payoff is so weak I wasn't willing to overlook them.I can't even begin to describe how creepy Nicholas Cage is in this movie. He looks like he's got a perpetually wet rodent stapled to his head and his attempts at being romantic gave me a full body cringe. Jessica Biel's best acting is kissing Cage without vomiting into his mouth.Dumb, lazy, half-hearted shrug of a movie isn't worth your time.

eyeintrees 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.

tmorgan-533-433938 I just think this would have been a much more successful movie if they had not dropped the ending. It felt like you were still half way through when the credits suddenly pop up and it was all over. I knew the time was running short near the end, but until the last moment I was certain they would have some cool trick to tie it all up. After all, how could they do otherwise without ruining a perfectly good movie. Sure we saw a possible ending but that doesn't make up for not following through for the final ending. Did he find a way to stop the bad guys? Did he get back to the girl? Who knows? This was definitely a case of trying to be arty and cool at the expense of actually telling the story and in my case I feel that it ruined the whole experience. Big credit for doing a PKD film (even if only vaguely so). Great casting with Jessica Biel. It was really an excellent first rate movie right up until the credits rolled right in the middle of the story. No it wasn't confusing, not it wasn't disjointed, there was really nothing wrong with it except that it was half of a story. I give it 7 points because it was so good up until that moment.