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.
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,
3 Dec 2007
rotten:
Another failed attempt to bring Dick's deliriously paranoid mind-set to the screen.
– Nigel Floyd,
Time Out,
22 Sep 2007
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,
3 May 2007
rotten:
A schlocky mix of bad special effects and worse Cage hairdos.
– Lisa Schwarzbaum,
Entertainment Weekly,
3 May 2007
rotten:
Once you know the rules, it's hardly worth playing. Especially when you find out you've been tricked.