Sunday, May 17, 2009

Next Day Air

Wow, Next Day Air was that next level of crap.  I was hoping it would just be a dumb comedy but instead it was classified as a comedy only because it needed to be filed away under some genre name.  The amount of times I laughed could be counted on one hand and the rest of the running time was just gangster movie clichés that the writers saw in other better movies.

Seeing the names Mos Def, Donald Faison, and Wood Harris gave me hope that there would be something salvageable in this useless film, but that definitely was not the case.  The blatant false advertising of Mos Def as a significant part of Next Day Air offended me the most.  He had less than 10 minutes of screen time all of which were shown in the trailers.  I don’t care if a movie is bad but lying to me about Mos Def is just criminal.  Faison literally smoked weed for the entirety of his performance.  It was the dictionary definition of a one-note joke.  And, well, as for Wood Harris, he will always and forever be Avon Barksdale.  This would not happen to Avon.  The whole movie is a sham.

Outside of those disappointments, the nonstop best of gangster movie reenactments grew tiresome within five minutes of the title sequence.  Every serious conversation felt like it was paraphrased from previous movies.  This was somehow made even worse by the voiceover during the climatic showdown that was so out of place it was jarring.  I refuse to learn any lessons from movies as bad as this.

So, Next Day Air was a mistake.  Bad comedies are just painful to sit through.  There is no action to distract you or acting to impress you, it just flat joke after flat joke.  Hopefully this is the low point of the summer.

4 out of 10   

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