Next Day Air (2009) movie

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Cast: Donald Faison, Mike Epps, Darius McCrary, Mos Def, Wood Harris, Yasmin Deliz, Omari Hardwick, Emilio Rivera, Cisco Reyes
Director: Benny Boom
Genres: Comedy of Errors, Crime Comedy, Comedy

When two bumbling criminals (Mike Epps and Wood Harris) accidentally receive a package of grade-A cocaine, they think they've hit the jackpot. But when they try to cash in on their luck, it triggers a series of events that forever changes the lives of ten people in Next Day Air, an uproarious action comedy featuring an all-star cast including Donald Faison, Mos Def and Debbie Allen.


Next Day Air Critic Reviews:
Next Day Air can't decide whether it's a broad stoner comedy or a gritty Tarantino-esque action flick. The humor is there, but violence brings the laughter to an abrupt halt.

Scrubs' Donald Faison plays Leo, a pot-addled delivery man who drops off a package containing a shipment of cocaine to the wrong apartment. The residents, a pair of petty thugs (Mike Epps, Wood Harris), regard it as a gift from God and make plans to sell it to a dealer cousin (Omari Hardwick).

The crook waiting for the coke shipment is their unsavory next-door neighbor, Jesus (Cisco Reyes), and his take-charge girlfriend, Chita (Yasmin Deliz). Deliz is hilarious as a sassy Latina who makes Rosie Perez seem like a shrinking violet. Fearing for their lives, Jesus and Chita try to track down the drug shipment. All signs point to Leo or a fellow delivery man, Eric (Mos Def).

The funniest gag comes when Epps has an incomprehensible phone conversation with Hardwick which necessitates subtitles. The formal translation of their trash talk is reminiscent of Airplane's Barbara Billingsley and her "I speak jive" bit.

Director Benny Boom is aiming for a jokier Guy Ritchie caper, interspersing events with quick cuts, flashbacks and freeze-frames. But when the would-be criminal neighbors meet, guns blazing, things get shockingly ugly. It's the bullet-riddled finale that lands the death blow on a film that would have been better had it blunted the shocks and focused on the guffaws.