2007 · action · sci-fi · thriller
Next
Directed by Lee Tamahori1h 36m2007
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.
Our read: Next (2007) reads as a sombre, breathless, surreal action · sci-fi · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme action / sci-fi, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- sombre
- kinetic
- extreme
- surreal
- twisty
- epic-stakes
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