Movie Review - 'Next Day Air'

Next Day Air Starring Donald Faison, Mike Epps, and Wood Harris Directed by Benny Boom Rated R

For a few unconnected moments, Next Day Air actually works. The entire idea behind it isn't very sound, and that proves very hard to overcome, but some individual scenes are OK, but that's the best than can be said of the film. The real problem is that Next Day Air is essentially a comedy of mistaken identity - the kind of thing a farce is built on - but since it involves coke dealers and a shipment gone wrong, it's hard to laugh at the drawn guns and consequences. But Next Day Air doesn't inform us enough that we know whether or not we're supposed to. Directed by music video veteran Benny Boom, Next Day Air begins with a lazy courier (Donald Faison from Scrubs) delivering a box to the wrong apartment. What should have gone to number 303 goes to number 302 instead. No good would have come from it either way: At its intended destination is a drug runner (Cisco Reyes), and where it ends up is in the possession of a couple of low-level crooks (Mike Epps and Wood Harris) who have just come off a botched bank robbery. Inside the box: Ten bricks of blow. The crooks' eyes fill with dollar signs, and they know just who should move he product for them. Across the hall, the drug runner has to tell his supplier that the shipment never arrived, and suddenly, a story spinning around four characters spins out of control around six. There is only one logical conclusion, and to say it fits in a comedy would be inaccurate. I did like Epps and Harris together. I wondered what these two hoodlums would be able to accomplish in a more centered story, or simply with a slightly better script. Chemistry is a tough thing to fake, and these guys have it. But as supporting characters, carrying equal weight with most of the other characters in the ensemble, it's not a consistent enough influence on the rest of the film. Faison is fine in limited duty, but the real shame is that Next Day Air essentially wastes Mos Def, who plays a role similar to Faison's. Why not just combine them and either get more out of Mos Def or give Faison more to do? Answering these questions would help Benny Boom, making his feature film debut. He's got a style, or could develop one, but only once the nuts and bolts of the story he's directing are figured out. I don't know, however, if a great director could have accomplished a tremendous amount given the breakdowns in the script.

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