Mos daft
Donald Faison, left, and Mos Def think about everything except delivering packages. (Adam L. Taylor/Summit Entertainment)
Next Day Air
Running
time:
88 minutes
MPAA rating:
R (harsh profanity, extreme violence, nudity, adult situations, drugs)
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Director Benny Boom and screenwriter (and I use the term loosely) Blair "Butta" Cobbs should be ashamed of themselves for this incredibly weak Quentin Tarantino rip-off.
Anyone who pays hard-earned dollars for this loud, pointless string of profanity -- much of it beginning with "mo" -- bullets and laziness deserves the empty pile of entertainment they'll get.
Ripping off Tarantino's early crime thrillers laced with dark comedy (especially "Reservoir Dogs" of 1992) is one thing. Not doing anything even remotely approaching something interesting after raping the structure and tone of the pulp fiction master is unforgivable.
Boom, a music video director who should have stayed put, and first-time screenwriter Cobbs, who's still one real script shy of a debut screenplay, borrow (to put it mildly) parts of the Tarantino sleaze-crime-drama-comedy vehicle. But when they put the parts together, they come up slightly south of a broken-down Edsel on blocks.
In other words, there's no chance for this bullet-riddled mess to gain any momentum.
Donald Faison, who's funny on the TV sitcom "Scrubs," and hip-hop singer/actor Mos Def ( Chuck Berry in "Cadillac Records"), who can act, head a large ensemble cast. No one has a chance to do much of anything except mug into the camera or snort movie coke (I think) in this tale of cocaine delivered to the wrong address.
Ten lives are changed because of it.
Nope, make that 11. I lost an hour and a half of my life I'll never get back watching this crap.
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