Next (2007) Critic Reviews

For an action thriller based on a Dick story, Next is peculiarly low-tech and hokey.Read the full review

This implausible action thriller also stars Julianne Moore as an FBI agent who sees Cage's two-bit Vegas act and decides he can single-handedly save the world.Read the full review

This isn't a bad movie; it's watchable but the direction in which the filmmakers choose to take it results in a vague sense of dissatisfaction.Read the full review

What starts out as a mildly diverting thriller blows itself to smithereens in the final reel.Read the full review

Despite an outlandish premise, Next suffers from being too conventional.Read the full review

An immediately forgettable action pic directed with a blowtorch by Lee Tamahori.Read the full review

In Next, a crummy action and speculative-fiction hybrid, Nicolas Cage plays a guy who can see into the future two minutes at a time. It's too bad that Mr. Cage couldn't tap into those same powers of divination to save himself from making yet another inexplicably bad choice in roles.Read the full review

It starts exploring different facets of its premise and transforms itself into a fairly competent suspense thriller. That's enough to make it respectable, but a few things keep Next from being lovable or memorable.Read the full review

Next bears some resemblance to another Dick adaptation, "Minority Report," about "pre-cogs" who can anticipate murders before they happen, but it doesn't really bother exploring the moral or emotional implications of Cage's power.Read the full review