2009 · action · comedy · crime
Next Day Air
Directed by Benny Boom1h 24m2009
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.
Our read: Next Day Air (2009) reads as a neutral, breathless, grounded action · comedy · crime entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, breathless, measured action / comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
- kinetic
- intense
- cold
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