Home » Archives » Next Day Air

Next Day Air

A straight up ghetto caper movie taking a big bite from Guy Ritchie's famous leap around crime films.

Movie Details

Rated: R

Run Time: 1 hr 24 min

Release Date: 5/8/2009

Genre: Comedy

Writer: Blair Cobbs

Website: Visit Website

Director: Benny Boom

Watch the Trailer

Synopsis

A highed up courier (Donald Faison, ABC's Scrubbs) accidentally delivers a smalltime gangster's package to the wrong neighbor's address where a couple of thugs gladly take it. When the gangster realizes that his package has delivered, but not to him, he and is girlfriend go on an all out search to find it before the rightful owner, a drug kingping, kills him.

Review

This is a crazy ghetto caper that’s funny and I laughed, but it isn’t ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha laughing until my stomach ached funny. It was more of ha ha ha funny. I’m not sure if that makes sense, but sista girl knows what she’s trying to say. Some folks might think it’s a juvenile caper movie that took a bite out of one of Guy Ritchie’s flicks such as Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. It has that feel, but in America and not Britain.

There are several characters, mostly all wanting the same thing – some dope and money. No one really seems like they want to work hard for an honest dollar. If you set this movie to real life thinking, it’s kind of sad with all the true hardworking people that have lost their jobs.

Next Day Air is about a NDA (Next Day Air) delivery driver named Leo (Donald Faison, ABC’s Scrubbs) who takes a very important package to the wrong address. This delivery was full of cocaine from a major drug lord meant for small time gangster Jesus (Cisco Reyes, Feel the Noise). Instead, two backwards thugs named Brody (Mike Epps, All About the Benjamins) and Guch (Wood Harris, Not Easily Broken) have the box and aren’t thinking about giving it to its rightful owner. When Jesus and his girlfriend Chita (Yasmin Deliz) find out it already delivered, but not to them, they go all out trying to find the package before drug lord Bodega Diablo (Emilio Rivera, Spider-Man 3) tears Jesus’ behind up.

Mike Epps is always hilarious. He truly is. I’ll always think of him in All About the Benjamins –"15…30…37…38 doo doo doo doo dooo…45…47." Mos def, or as I like to call him, Mr. Marbles because he always sounds like he has a handful of marbles in his mouth when he talks, wasn’t in the movie long at all.

Air has lots of guns and bullets, some dumb-dumbs, a ride or die chick, somewhat good guys and tons of bad guys. You know this is just one of those stupid, silly jump about movies with a ghetto edge that’s comical. It would be great on DVD on a Friday night that you don’t feel like going out.

One character just looked so darn stupid and funky-nasty. Ugh. I swear there was only like one non-stereotypical person in Air.

You know the wild thing about this film is, you know stuff like this goes on. Not necessarily the wrong package being delivered…but just having neighbors who are shady as heck. But then again, Fed Ex delivered a new AT&T phone to me that should have been for someone at a completely different street. Dummies. So, I guess it does happen. My only advice would be to give it to its rightful owner and swift!


My Rating ~ 2 Reels

2 - Rent this movie on DVD when it comes out

Audience Rating (What's Yours?)