NEXT Film Review - 2/7/07

Now I had not seen a Trailer for this but had read a small piece on it in a magazine months before it was out. Directed by Lee Tamahori ("Die Another Day") and with Nicolas Cage as a man with the ability to see 2 minutes into his own future I was certainly interested - Even more so when I found out it was based on a Philip K. Dick story called "The Golden Man". Starting off sharply and really getting up to speed quickly this started to look more interesting as it progressed and the story put one hell of a lot of pressure on with Julianne Moore, Jessica Biel and Thomas Kretschmann all fleshing out their characters exceptionally well and the action notched up a few ratchets and turned high octane - Then the story suddenly jolts completely, jumps back to halfway through the film and stops totally dead with no ending, explanation or anything? The sort of thing as the credits roll make you shout out "Is that it?" A really good story turned to shit in literally seconds - Don't waste 2 hours of your life - You will be really disappointed. I certainly was - Pointless!