Having this concept in a movie where a person can se abit into the future and therfore should be able to get the best possiable outcome, at least in the short run makes me question everything he does in the movie and think that there must have been a better choice. When you think about it he should be able to crack any code or answer any question even if he dont know the answer. He just ses what random noise gives the answer. Several times during the movie I though that he must have seen a better future in a different action that the one he just did. Like the time in the casino where he just clumsy pushed the robber, or in the attack at the end where he let several agents die where he must have been able to get them to survive. This thinking got me to not be able to fully enjoy the movie. Then we have the leader of the agency who is searching for the bomb who just happens to se his fancy work in the casino and instantly thinks that he can read the future and puts all resources into finding him because he "definitely" is the key to finding the bomb. I am surprised that anyone listens to her and that she can keep her job.

A Las Vegas magician who can see into the future is pursued by FBI agents seeking to use his abilities to prevent a nuclear terrorist attack. Next is many times over the top and silly but it's a movie about Time Travel starring Nicolas Cage, Julianne Moore and Jessica Biel by the name Next. The things i liked about this film was mostly Cage he was very smart and i liked that he could see the future and being a badass at the same time although his love interest Biel kinda felt forced but still i liked it as a movie it was fun and very smart when it wanted to of course. As for Moore she was good too everyone did their parts well but the villains should be much much better but still a pretty nice film 7.9/10

Aprently it was an adaption of a short story by Philip K Dick "The Golden Men" which I have not read. So my review comes strictly from what I saw of the Hollywood story in NEXT staring Nicholas Cage as Chris Johnson a melancholy magician in Vagas who uses his power/ability or whatever you want to classify it of being able to see 2 minutes into his own future and see all of the deferent possible out comes. Early in the movie you are told that FBI agent Callie Farris (Julianna Moore) has discovered Chris's future seeing ability and for some implausible reason thinks he can help them locate and disarm a nuclear bomb that is going kill millions of Americans. Which makes little to no sense because this has nothing to directly do with Chriss future and even if it did how would a two minute advantage really help in this situation? For a reason unexplained Chris wants no part and doesn't really seem to care about all of the people who could potentially die and goes to pretty extreme measures to avoid helping the FBI which makes his character dispissable. With that being said the first escape scene is pretty intertianing to watch. After Cage escapes from the FBI and the opportunity to potinally save millions of lives he is on the hunt for a woman who he has been repeatedly dreaming of meeting and allows him to see even further into the future past his two minute limit. He waits for her in a diner and there is a clever scene of there first interactions played out into several different scenarios until he finds the right one that will get Liz (Jessica Beil) to allow a total stranger to jump in her Land Rover and drive to flag staff with her. They make a pit stop at the reservation she teaches at, which provides some beautiful scenery to the movie. They continue on in a cheesy forced scene where Liz somehow ends up passing out all the way over into the drive seat onto Chriss shoulder. Then the end up stuck staying at a motel where Beil is uncomfortable with Cage staying in the room, which a total normal reaction but all that logic is wasted as where in the morning she is totally fine prancing around naked in a towel in the same hotel room with him. Shortly after that Liz throughs herself at Chris and there is the obvious innuendo that they hooked up with out the sex scene which I'm thankful for because it was hard enough to believe that a woman like Jessica Biel would hook up with him man 18 years her senior like Nicholas Cage. Liz goes outside and is confronted by Faris and she tells him that Chris is a sociopaths and that he is very dangerous and she needs to drug him and turn him over peacefully to the FBI. Liz drugs his drink but then at the last minute has second thoughts and tells him about the drug in his drink and tells him about her encounter with the FBI agent. She ask the obvious question of why he is refusing to help which gives her the explanation that's just not how his powers work I couldn't help thinking come on man isn't worth a try to save millions of lives? I guess not I guess it's easier to plan the next ecape which ends up in the scene of a downhill avalanche and car chase which was pretty entertaining and had some OK CGI effects, but the continued extreme links he goes to avoid the FBI to not help all of these people just added onto my hate for his character. He is eventually captured by the FBI when he chooses to save Ferris's life the one redeeming action his character has. The FBI hook him up to a machine much like in the clockwork Orange making him watch news broadcast hoping he will get a glimpse of the detonation location. He instead see Liz with a bomb vest as a terrorist hostage. He uses his ability to ecape the FBI and is conveniently located across the street from where Liz is going to be blown up. He now and only now agrees to help Ferris save all of the millions of lives now that it directly affects his new love interest. There is a climactic scene where he now develops into multiple selves exploring multiple futures and pathways at the same time. And now show superhuman likability to dodge bullets in a matrix style fashion to catch the terrorist. With Liz safely in his arms Ferris has an look at a monitor to see if you can see when and where the bomb going to go off. He realizes that he is made a mistake in the bomb detonates and destroys the port in the entire city. *spoiler* Then in a painful plot twist Time reverts all the way back to where they were lying in bed together after their initial hook up letting us know that the entire two thirds of the movie that we watched did not happen but only was it foreseeing into the future. Ending with a cheesy line something along the lines when you see the future it changes... He leaves Liz asking her to wait for him and calls Farris and agrees to help her. But the problem with this is the terrorists already know who Chris is and obviously who Liz is and the second he walks away from her I suppose they would just walk in there and kidnap her all over again..a bit of a plot hole.

I have been meaning to review this film for a while so why not review it.Next was quite the film when I first sit down to watch it the film did star Jessica Biel one of my favorite actresses but the film has a lot going for it then most people would give it credit for.The film itself feature a lot that you would enjoy about a thriller action movie, clever story with special effects and the plot is one you have to play close attention to or you'll be lost.Next centers around The F.B.I. lead by Callie Ferris (Julianne Moore) go on the hunt for a Las Vegas Magician Cris Johnson (Nicolas Cage) who has the gift to see two minutes into his future. But when he finally meets this woman he sees in his visions he can see further into the future the woman is Liz Cooper (Jessica Biel) the F.B.I. Believes he can help them prevent a Nuclear attack from a man named Mr.Smith (Thomas Kretschmann).What makes the movie interesting is the plot is original and will have your attention from the start of the film. That's what I like about the film and why I watch it in the first place.The characters are interesting enough to watch on screen along with Biel, Moore, and Cage giving some strong acting for the film as they are the key stars of the film. Along with the special effects being well done and timed to match the story.Next just has so much going for it and it's hard not to sit down and enjoy it as long as you have a opening mind, Next does award you with all you could ask for in a thriller action film.With strong performances by Jessica Biel, Nicolas Cage and Julianne Moore, intense story and interesting plot twists you will be glad you watch this filmI give Next an 9 out of 10