The idea of a man that can see two minutes into the future, might be hard to fathom if your not a broadminded fiction lover. Luckily I feel very much at home in fiction, and really enjoyed the way the writers had fun with the idea. They manage to twist the story into all direction so that nobody except Frank Cadillac (Nicolas Gage) knows what’s going to happen next.
The movie follow a lot of the Hollywood clichés for a box office hit like great special effects and the hero saving the heroin, but then the studios allow an ending, which is brave, but ultimately it will be the reason why people don’t flock to the cinema. Walking out of the cinema you’ll have the feeling of being cheated out of the greatest climax in cinema history. The story takes a while to take off, and the writers should have invested that time in such an ending. An audience looking for the standard thrills of an action movie (and the usual huge climax following it) can only be left disappointed by an ending that fits more in cinema nouveau, where it might have fed the palates of the more cultured.
The patterns of the end credits don’t make you feel any better either.
Next barely scores 6/10.
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