Rotten
This busy sci-fi thriller often seems like a page full of equations rendered meaningless by an early misplaced decimal point.
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader
Next
If you can see the future, you can save it.
2007 · 1h 36m · PG-13
Action, Science Fiction, Thriller
Directed by
Lee Tamahori
Overview
Las Vegas showroom magician Cris Johnson has a secret which torments him: he can see a few minutes into the future. Sick of the examinations he underwent as a child and the interest of the government and medical establishment in his power, he lies low under an assumed name in Vegas, performing cheap tricks and living off small-time gambling "winnings." But when a terrorist group threatens to detonate a nuclear device in Los Angeles, government agent Callie Ferris must use all her wiles to capture Cris and convince him to help her stop the cataclysm.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
28%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Another failed attempt to bring Dick's deliriously paranoid mind-set to the screen.
Nigel Floyd, Time Out
Rotten
Next features Nicolas Cage as a clairvoyant who can see events before they occur. If anyone on the production team had similar abilities, they could have foreseen that the film was a folly in the making.
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune
Rotten
A schlocky mix of bad special effects and worse Cage hairdos.
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly
Rotten
Once you know the rules, it's hardly worth playing. Especially when you find out you've been tricked.
Claudia Puig, USA Today
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