NEXT DAY AIR

Plot:

Donald Faison plays Leo, a disgruntle worker for NDA or Next Day Air (a spoof of of UPS). His mother Ms. Jackson (Allen) who runs the company is just about to fire him because of the constant complaints she is receiving about him delivering packages smelling like weed, until she gives in to his persistent begging to maintain his job. After being given another chance he turns around and starts right back to smoking weed and hanging out with fellow co-worker Eric (Mos Def) who cracks open packages helping himself to valuable items. After getting so high he delivers a package of drugs that was sent from Puerto Rico by drug kingpin Bodega (Rivera) to the wrong apartment in Philadelphia, whose residents happen to be a couple of wanna be thugs who are looking for a come up. The thugs, Guch (Harris) and Brody (Epps) can't believe their unexpectant gift and so they contact Brody's drug dealing cousin Shavoo (Hardwick) and his henchman who is only known as Buddy (McCrary) to to sell the product to them. Eventually the Puerto Rican drug dealers search for Leo in an attempt to retrieve their drugs from the apartment that he mistakenly drop the packaged off at.

Reel Talk:

Next Day Air, being Benny Boom's (famously known for directing videos for major rappers) first major film directorial, he comes out smoking in this gritty tale of money, greed, drugs and death. In a interview I had with comedian Mike Epps, he mentioned that he felt this movie was a little dark and he was concerned would his audience accept him for doing something different like this, because people are use to seeing him being funny, being the comic relief. Although this might be a twist from some of his other movies, he still makes his presence known, in a comedic way. But who I felt was the scene stealer, thou his part was small, was Mos Def, he is truly underrated as an actor. Now don't think that because this is a dark, gritty film that's its not good. It is actually a good and interesting movie, it will keep your attention. All the characters blended well also which helps in making this film work.

Starring: Donald Faison, Mike Epps, Mos Def, Wood Harris, Omari Hardwick, Emilio Rivera, Darius McCrary, Cisco Reyes, Debbie Allen and Lauren London
Directed By: Benny Boom
Rated: R

I give it 4 corn dogs

By: Corndog - The Reel Hustler