Until now, I had never seen a movie with an ending that made me get up from the couch and shout "NO, NO WAY" with the most anger a movie has given me, but here I am. The movie's plot is a winding road of nonsense, the characters are strange and the music is generic. Nicolas Cage's acting as usual is stellar but not for the reasons you'd expect, he's goofy and dumb and we all love watching him do stupid stuff. The way the cinematography incorporates his looks into the future is actually really cool, showing the camera pan slowly as he gets up and tries to talk to someone, failing, then the camera pans back to find him still sitting down thinking the situation over. They did a good job of implementing his ability. You can tell the movie doesn't take itself too seriously and just wants to have dumb fun. Probably the most entertaining Nic Cage movie I've seen. Give it a shot.

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.

For a movie with more plot holes than a carrot farm, is very entertaining, has Jessica Biel in it and did I mention it has Jessica Biel in it? Jessica Biel would make a race of rocks entertaining and worth watching...IMHO.But to the movie. Watch it, enjoy it for what it is and is packed with action scenes, hateful "government" characters and an army of disposable terrorists to kill as needed. (Arrests in Hollywood?, Nah!) If you are a "make sense" freak or a patient of OCD, you be warned this is not for you.There is no character development, no explanation why, no correlation, logic or sense to the whole thing. Is like a movie filmed in OZ warp hole, with Nick Cage in his worst ever hair do and ...Jessica Biel.8/10

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.