Two inept criminals are mistakenly delivered a package of cocaine and think they've hit the jackpot, triggering a series of events that changes ten people's lives forever.
Next Day Air is sort of bracing, though it isn't very good: Its total lack of dramatic and comic bearings, to say nothing of a point, keeps you wondering about the next fatality, in a half-interested way.
– Michael Phillips,
Chicago Tribune,
29 May 2009
rotten:
There are no cops, not much farcical energy, and none of the satiric edge it would take to pull off the film's grim denouement.
– Michelle Orange,
Village Voice,
13 May 2009
rotten:
I've seen much funnier films from Mike Epps.
– Ben Lyons,
At the Movies,
11 May 2009
fresh:
An amusing tail of incompetent criminals.
– Ben Mankiewicz,
At the Movies,
11 May 2009
fresh:
He may be a first-time feature director, but music video master Benny Boom clearly knows how to pull a midlevel movie together. That's harder than it sounds.