"NEXT"

Last night while waiting for my favorite show to start, I surfed all the channels on TV. I watched a movie on Star Movies last night and it’s called “Next” it stars Nicholas Cage and Jessica Biel. What amazes me in this movie is the ability of Cris Johnson (Nicolas Cage) to see things before it happened. I always imagine those things to happened to me but I’m sure I can always imagine but it will never come true (lol). Imagine if all of us have that kind of gift, I don’t think any of us will dare to trick each other.

Plot – from Wikipedia

Cris Johnson (Nicolas Cage) is in a Las Vegas diner. He looks at the clock above the counter. He checks his own watch, and then glances out the door. He is looking for someone, but that person doesn't show. He appears to be haunted by visions of a young woman, probably connected to the diner. Cris is a clairvoyant living under an assumed name, Frank Cadillac, in Las Vegas. He has a minor magic show at one of the hotels, but he makes his living at "low stakes" gambling against the casinos. He manages to stay beneath the radar, never revealing his gift—the ability to see two minutes into his own future.
During one of his magic shows (involving a small role with Cage's real-life wife, Kim), two FBI agents observe him, although he doesn’t realize that’s who they are or that they are even after him. After the magic show, when he goes to a casino to gamble, he is observed by the casino’s security. They have watched him for a while and tonight they are convinced he must be cheating in some way. Cris, however, knows they are coming. He goes to cash his chips and get out of the casino. That is, until a nervous man approaches the money cages of the casino just as Cris cashes in. Cris looks at him, and the man pulls a gun. He tries to rob the casino, and shoots two people in the process. The scene freezes — this is a vision of the future and now Cris knows what's going to happen. He tackles the robber and grabs the gun, but the casino security thinks he's the danger as they see him holding the gun as he stands up. Using his ability, Cris eludes security and steals a car. He escapes the police in a car chase, narrowly avoiding a train, and heads for home in the car.
Meanwhile, the FBI agents peruse the security video from the casino. One of them, Callie Ferris (Julianne Moore), is convinced Cris is the key to help the FBI stop terrorists from detonating a stolen Russian nuclear bomb. All the information she has obtained until this point proves Cris has some unexplainable ability to see into the future. She has her partner get the head of casino security, to ask some more questions before they go and pick up Cris.
Cris goes to see his friend Irv (Peter Falk), but realizes that the police and Callie are on his tail. Before Cris leaves Irv’s place, however, he decides to see what Callie wants. Cris views the future and realizes that Callie wants to use his powers and will not take no for an answer. He escapes from her, but he won’t leave town. He has been living every day in hopes of meeting the woman from his vision, and understanding why — where she is concerned — he can see farther ahead than he ever has before.
Meanwhile, two of the French terrorists kill the casino’s head of security, trying to find out more about Cris.
Cris goes to the diner. This time the woman from his vision shows up. Her name is Liz (Jessica Biel) and Cris "tries" a number of ways to meet her (i.e. he looks into the near future that would result from each). Her abusive ex-boyfriend shows up and gives him an opportunity to save her. Cris "tries" to avoid being hit, but finds out he gains more sympathy from Liz when he lets the ex-boyfriend hit him. He tells her his car was stolen, and before long she offers to drive him to his destination — Flagstaff — which is conveniently where Liz is headed.
Callie in the meantime is insistent on tracking Cris down. She finds the diner where he was, and learns in the process that the casino head of security was murdered — she doesn’t connect it yet to the terrorists. She learns that Cris is heading towards Flagstaff, and goes to see if she can track down a video of him.
Cris and Liz are driving through Nevada together. She has a stop to make at an Indian reservation where she teaches. One of her students has a birthday, and she has brought a present for him. While they descend to the reservation, Cris mentions he would like to meet their shaman. He asks Liz if she believes the stories they tell about shaman — their abilities to control water, to see the future. Liz says she believes anything is possible. At the reservation, Liz draws closer to Cris, particularly after her students point out how much he seems to like her and he performs a magic trick for the birthday boy.
Meanwhile, the French terrorists have their nuclear bomb delivered to the docks. The leader of the terrorists, who goes by the name of "Mr. Smith" (Thomas Kretschmann) wants Cris eliminated, and so the "henchmen" are off to track Cris down before the FBI can get their hands on him.
Cris is driving Liz’s car through the rain. She falls asleep on his shoulder, and then jerks herself awake. They come up to a roadblock, the road to Flagstaff is flooded, and are forced to turn back to a hotel called the Cliffhanger (quite literally perched atop a cliff).
Callie finds out who Liz is, but is still unable to locate where they have gone.
At the hotel, Cris leaves Liz in the room and sleeps in the car himself. Liz glances out the window at one point, and watches him, feeling guilty that he is sleeping in the cold. The next day, Cris "makes" a rose appear in place of a paper one for Liz and the two of them share a kiss.
Because of the police officer at the roadblock, Callie finds out where Liz and Cris are hiding. The government has detected nuclear radiation levels, and so Callie is able to mobilize a large group of FBI agents to go and capture Cris. The French terrorists have been watching the FBI building, in the apartment of a murdered girl, and they follow the FBI to Cris’s hideout.
Cris and Liz are curled up in bed together. Liz is asleep, but Cris’s eyes suddenly pop open and he stares at the ceiling. Liz leaves the Cliffhanger to go shopping, watched and then intercepted by Callie and the FBI. The French are also watching, and they mark Liz as being someone connected to Cris. In the car, Callie convinces Liz that Cris is a dangerous sociopath and that Liz must drug him so Callie and the FBI can arrest him. In shock, Liz agrees. The French watch the hotel, but cannot get a clear shot at Cris. So they wait, like the FBI, to see what happens next.
Liz does not follow through on drugging Cris, and instead warns him that Callie and the FBI are there. Cris tells her his secret, and insists if she believes everything is possible, she needs to believe in him. After Liz sees the proof she believes, but doesn’t understand why he won’t help the FBI. He explains that his gift is limited to his future alone for two minutes only and that this wouldn’t help the FBI. Only Liz gives him a glimpse of a more distant future. Cris wants to escape the FBI, and have Liz go into hiding. Liz promises to wait for him to find her. Neither is aware that the French know who Cris and Liz are. Liz smashes her car into a mill on the edge of the cliff, causing a giant chain reaction slide of wagons and falling logs. Cris almost succeeds in getting away, but at the last minute saves Callie from the falling logs. Callie arrests him, and hauls him off with the FBI. The French, unable to get their hands on Cris, kidnap Liz instead.
At FBI headquarters in Los Angeles, Callie hooks Cris up to a machine, in front of a television, and tells him to seek out the future for where the nuclear blast takes place. Instead, Cris gets a vision of Liz being killed by terrorist bombs strapped to her body. He escapes the FBI and runs to the parking garage where he saw it happen. When he gets there, there is no sign of Liz. Cris’s powers of the future, however, have expanded as far as Liz is concerned. Liz's death won’t occur for two more hours. Callie finds him there and warns him that the French probably have a sniper prepared to kill him. Callie promises to help Cris save Liz, if he'll help her.
Using Cris as bait, the FBI tries to catch the sniper but the sniper is killed in the attempt. Cris visualizes the future again, this time getting a picture of the license plate on the French terrorists' van. Callie uses this to track down the French near the port. The FBI swarms on the port, but Callie makes it clear to her team that Cris calls the shots in terms of when and where to shoot. They work together and chase the French, who use a bomb-strapped Liz as a shield, into a tanker. Cris helps them evade traps and a sniper, and get down to the last terrorist. Cris uses his ability to see in to the future to defuse a hostage situation by prejudging where the terrorist will shoot if he does a certain action, and by doing so, eliminates down to a certain path which is safe for him to walk. Callie shoots him and Cris frees Liz. Outside, however, the FBI has discovered that the nuclear bomb has been moved. Callie shows Cris where the range of LA where they think the bomb is hidden, but Cris becomes agitated and says he was wrong, he made a mistake. Then he shouts, "It's happening now," and grabs Liz to shield her with his body. In LA, the nuclear explosion goes off, obliterating the port and everyone on it.