{"id":594,"date":"2007-04-27T06:22:41","date_gmt":"2007-04-27T06:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/archives\/2007\/04\/27\/next\/"},"modified":"2007-04-28T21:42:01","modified_gmt":"2007-04-28T21:42:01","slug":"next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2007\/04\/27\/next\/","title":{"rendered":"Next"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Nicolas Cage stars in this silly but mindlessly entertaining thriller about a man who can see 2 minutes in to the future. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/copy-2-of-next-poster.jpg\" title=\"Next poster\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/copy-2-of-next-poster.jpg\" title=\"Next poster\" alt=\"Next poster\" align=\"right\" height=\"255\" width=\"173\" \/><\/a>Based on a short story by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Philip_K._Dick\">Philip K Dick<\/a> called <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Golden_Man\">The Golden Man<\/a> this covers the same sort of territory as <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Minority_Report_%28film%29\">Minority Report<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Matrix_%28film%29\">The Matrix<\/a> but without any of the finesse or brains of those films. With some clumsy dialogue and predictable plotting you might be forgiven for thinking that some scenes border on parody.<\/p>\n<p>Although Cage is an agreeable presence in the leading role the two female characters are wafer thin sterotypes: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000194\/\">Julianne Moore<\/a> is wasted in the grumpy cop role whilst Jessica Biel is given little to do in a flimsy <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Damsel_in_distress\">damsel in distress<\/a> role.<\/p>\n<p>That said the action is slickly handled by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lee_Tamahori\">Lee Tamahori<\/a> and the central concept is strong enough to keep the interest even though it deviates wildly from the source novel.<\/p>\n<p>Dick is an author who doesn&#8217;t always get the best treatment from Hollywood and this continues that tradition but if you switch your brain off it is something of a guilty pleasure.<\/p>\n<p>&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nextmovie.com\/\">Official site for Next<\/a><br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0435705\/\">IMDb link for Next<\/a><br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/042504288X\/203-9363106-9849563?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=filmdetail-21&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;camp=1634&amp;creativeASIN=042504288X\">Buy The Golden Man at Amazon UK<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nicolas Cage stars in this silly but mindlessly entertaining thriller about a man who can see 2 minutes in to the future. Based on a short story by Philip K Dick called The Golden Man this covers the same sort of territory as Minority Report and The Matrix but without any of the finesse or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}