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I wonder what happens next?

Advantages: Tons of twists
Disadvantages: None, the film is really good

After his last film (the truly awful Ghostrider) Nicolas Cage finally gives us something half decent to watch. He plays Johnny Casino, a Las Vegas magician & illusionist but he's the real thing, he can see the future - but only as far as 2 minutes into his own future so he is using his real talent to make his act look better than it actually is. His father (at leat I assume it's his father) is played by the brilliant but sadly wasted Peter Falk in ...
...lot more screen time and I got the feeling they'd cut a fair few scenes with him in. Julieanne Moore is pretty decent as the head of the FBI task force charged with finding a bomb that is about to be detonated somewhere in California and they think they can use Johnnys future predicting talents to find this bomb. The film has many twist, turns and reveals. It'll keep you guessing and because he can predict the future & then start to change it to ...

atytyut2434 06.03.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Next (DVD)

Next - A Real Let Down

Advantages: Good special-effects
Disadvantages: Tedius - nothing much really happens - bad acting

...Tory Kittles (Cavanaugh) Next is the story of a Las Vegas magician, Cris Johnson, who possesses the ability to see 2 minutes into the future. An FBI agent, who is trying to find a stolen nuclear device stolen by terrorists, thinks that Cris might be able to help her find the nuclear device before it's too late. Unfortunately, Cris can only see 2 minutes into the future---and he doesn't want to help the FBI because he doesn't want to end up as a ...
...dream within a dream---until the character finally finds the correct move that will change the next 2 minutes---and even then, once he accomplishes the right move, the future is changed once again and he has to start all over! All I can say to this is---what a major disappointment! ...

GoFigure 18.11.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Next (DVD)

What Next?

Advantages: Action packed movie, with characters you care about.
Disadvantages: THe trauma that is the movies ending.

...Next. So say that Next is a bad gift is not strictly true, however realistically it is a hollow gift. Based on Phillip K. Dick's novel , Next would qualify as great if there was a scheduled second instalment. Next is much like a American TV shows, where as in the UK bad shows get to finish their run, in the US they are immediately pulled meaning that you never get to find out how it all ends prime examples from 2005/2006 are Invasion, Reunion, and ...
...up. I cannot criticise Next in any major way, at the beginning of the movie the projected 20 second leaps into the future get a bit tedious, it almost comes off like cheap movie making. But soon you get over that no sooner has the movie adequately delivered its message to the audience. Then you get a real high octane action packed movie that does not let you down until the final minutes. Having grown to like the characters and feel passionately ...

sghawken 02.09.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Next (DVD)

You Look Like a Radioactive Tampon

Advantages: Great Direction and Acting
Disadvantages: Too Slow for some

Moon reminds me a lot of those big weighty Sci-fi films of the seventies where it was all about atmosphere, storyline and your imagination rather than riotous special effects and wise cracking aliens. This film is utterly beguiling, its tense but strangely relaxing, all of these is down to two men, the director Duncan Jones and the star Sam Rockwell. This is Jones' first feature film and its an incredibly impressive debut, he eschewed using his father ...
...it is a really fantastic film which is a credit to him. Starring Sam Rockwell as Sam, the only worker on an automated lunar mining complex. He has been working on his own for nearly three years and nearing the end of his term in space he feels lonely, isolated and confused....as anyone would, I imagine. With only a droid, Gerty (Voiced by Kevin Spacey) for company, Sam is alone and starts to feel a world apart from Earth, he feels he is alone but ...

paulie1975 29.12.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Moon (DVD)

Sometimes, Ignorance is bliss

Advantages: clever thriller, good story, well acted
Disadvantages: bit depressing?

Dont misunderstand my review title, this is a cracking film. You can nearly always say that about Nicolas Cage films, but this one really is! The premise is simple. There are many disasters happening on earth, for some reason, aliens decide to warn mankind about the upcoming disasters by "whispering" them to a little girl in the 1950's. Unfortuneately, that girl does nothing with the information other than write it down on a bit of paper and allow ...
...capsule. The capsule is dug up in the current day and discovered by Nicolas Cage's character. He soon discovers the code in the series of numbers written on the page and works out that the code tells of impending disasters, when they will happen, how many will die and the location. The story continues on along this path, with a worrying fortelling of the end of days. We don't know what will happen right until the end. I wont ruin it for you either, ...

AgeUK 28.12.2009 · Read full review
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