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.
Once you know the rules, it's hardly worth playing. Especially when you find out you've been tricked.
– Claudia Puig,
USA Today,
27 Apr 2007
rotten:
A schlocky mix of bad special effects and worse Cage hairdos.
– Lisa Schwarzbaum,
Entertainment Weekly,
3 May 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:
Another failed attempt to bring Dick's deliriously paranoid mind-set to the screen.
– Nigel Floyd,
Time Out,
22 Sep 2007
rotten:
This busy sci-fi thriller often seems like a page full of equations rendered meaningless by an early misplaced decimal point.