I watched Next a few days ago. It was far from perfect but I must confess that i really enjoyed it! Lots of people seem to be disappointed by the ending but if you look at the story as a whole you realize that we might only have seen a small part of the total story, which I find fascinating. Unfortunately it’s hard to get into any details without spoilers.
The story of Next does have a few strange things; who are the terrorists? What were they motivated by? It would also be nice to have some kind of explanation or theory on how Cris (Nicolas Cage) was limited to seeing only two minutes into the future with the exception of events that involved Liz (Jessica Biel).
Somehow a federal agent discovers that Cris has some kind of future-telling ability and tries to recruit him to help her find a nuclear bomb that has gone missing and is thought to be in the hands of a terrorist group. Cris is not very fond of the idea, and if he uses his ability he is very hard to catch, as demonstrated in a cool sequence in the beginning of the movie.
My major problem with the movie is as stated above the strange terrorist plot, I don’t mind that the terrorists aren’t the stereotypical “Hollywood muslims” but it would sure be nice to know who they really are. There are also some strangeness around the two-minute limitation on the ability to see the future that doesn’t quite make sense, for instance that Liz is told to wait 5 minutes before doing something to avoid Cris from seeing it. After 3 minutes of waiting it will of course be 2 minutes until she does it…
If you are a science fiction fan that likes a bit of action I’m sure that you will enjoy Next! My rating is 4 stars out of 5.