Next - a widely misunderstood movie

WARNING: Contains spolilers!! If you have not watched the movie. Really recommend watching it.

So, I'm off sick from work today feeling slightly rotten and alighted on watching Next the movie to distract me, and it was a great success!

I got to the end of the movie, extreemly satisfied with everything that occured but craving more, I thought surely this has spawned a TV series or a follow up movie! So I went online to check and was horrified at the terrible reviews from critict demonstrating the most basic misunderstanding of love and this romantic thriller with a sci-fi twist (which is what it surely is).

I was so horrified by the, frankly, dumbass conculusions draw about the movie I felt I needed to explain it to these very very clueless individuals.

Firstly, they mentioned the way the character Cage plays goes from hopeless jerk to suddend action hero and these critics act and speaks like this is some consistency mistake *eye rolls*. The main character in the movie is hiding an ability to see into the future 2 minutes at a time with 100% accuracy, the only way to possibly disguise that is to be deliberately appearing bad at things. So appearing like a somewhat hopeless magician lounge act is a cover to allow him a hope of a normal life, since when he does use his powers its perceived as part of his act and its also perceived he's hopless (which noone who knows the future would be). Now, once he's seen into the future that this cover gets blown, and its assumed he see's many possible futures and therefore explores them somewhat in theory before they happen (a theme running throughout the film) which is explainable by the fact that at a moment I may decide I don't want to go out because I notice the rain where a second before I hadn't and had a whole plan to go out (but applied to pre-congnition). So therefore there is zero inconsistancy. Secondly, his obvious prioity is this girl he feels must surely be the love of his life, and also he's hugely interested in because at the outset he cannot see their future together, but can perceive the moment they meet. Logically its obvious, that once her lifeline meets his he will get to see futher ahead as it becomes the combination of his ability to see ahead in his personal future coupled with seeing far ahead in hers (but not ahead of whatever future point he sees) making the whole movie logically consistant.

The whole plot line of the bomb was actually irrelevant to the story, which was the story of him finding and saving the love of his life. The only reason he involves himself in the whole plot is when he's absolutely forced too when every future outcome lead to the death of her partner. Even then the last attempt obviously lead to the end of the state he was in by nuclear explosion, hence the ending to the movie.

I loved this movie, it was brilliantly executed with a perfectly pitched amount of suspense. Having recently suffered the shit which is "Battle Star Galactica" reboot, this was a breath of fresh air to re-watch (I even forgot how the movie went, so it was a really good buy getting twice the enjoyment).