Went to watch 'Next' with Boon, SM and Wilson under Boon's recommendation and this subsequently earn Boon a 50 movie ban from recommendating future movies to watch. That should be sufficient to sum up how bad the movie is. Basically this movie is about a man who is able to see 2mins ahead in the future and initially uses this ability to be a magician and gamble in casinos. As some terrorist group threatens to detonate a nuclear device in USA, he is being tracked down by the FBI to assist to find out where is the nuclear device deployed before it is detonated. Sounds rather creative for a movie plot so far?
Initiallly the movie is rather entertaining as the movie explores many interesting ways how the special ability can be used. As the movie progress on, the plot get more and more unrealistic as the FBI seems pool in their entire resources and in tracking the man down then the terrorists as if he is the only hope. It soon gets confusing as soon the viewers could not tell which events happened in real life and which events is his sight of the future. Somehow or the other there are various scenes when somehow the man is able to modify the 2mins rule and see much further ahead. Throughout the movie there's quite some action on going which still makes the movie watchable. Very unfortunately at the final 10 mins the ending totally killed off the movie and if not for the ending this movie would have gotten at least a 3/5 rating. Therefore I would advice that either you skip this movie completely or leave the cinema 10mins before time so as to keep a good impression of the movie. Rating for the complete movie will be 1.5/5.0.
After the movie, went out for an 'IX outing' organized by Demong at PS cartel. It's more like a 'Green Outing' rather than an IX outing as only me, Daryl, Chih and Theodric went for it and Roger did joined us as we are about to go. A simple dinner outing but unfortunately we could not avoid the topic of work. Guess we are all too workaholic.
