Next (2007)

included · Biological

Lee Tamahori · 96 minutes

Las Vegas showroom magician Cris Johnson has a secret which torments him: he can see a few minutes into the future. Sick of the examinations he underwent as a child and the interest of the government and medical establishment in his power, he lies low under an assumed name in Vegas, performing cheap tricks and living off small-time gambling "winnings." But when a terrorist group threatens to detonate a nuclear device in Los Angeles, government agent Callie Ferris must use all her wiles to capture Cris and convince him to help her stop the cataclysm.

Thriller, Science Fiction, Action

Before you choose

What kind of time-travel story is this?

Time travel drives much of the story.

Meets the archive’s time-travel criteria. The mechanism is classified as Biological.

Why the archive makes this assessment (spoilers)

Cris repeatedly uses knowledge of possible futures to guide the pursuit and avert the attack.

Cris has an innate ability to perceive possible near futures and act on that knowledge; this meets the literal temporal-perception criterion.

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An editorial assessment based on the archive’s documented plot research.

Scale, legacy & time

The scores

Titan65.7

Weighted archive score

Time-travel significance8/10

high confidence

Quality consensus5.8/10

Aggregate source ratings

How Titan works

Titan combines the archive’s quality, audience and legacy base with the significance of time travel. It is an index, not a score out of 100, and is distinct from the FMV archive’s scoring model.

Titan = base × [0.20 + 0.80 × (time-travel score ÷ 10)²]

This film: 92.33 base × 71.2% weighting.

Partial inputs flag incomplete source metadata. Provisional weighting flags a time-travel assessment that remains uncertain; it receives no additional confidence penalty.

The evidence

Research & sources

Research notes may reveal plot details.

These sources support the plot facts and catalog research. The numerical scores are the archive’s judgments, not ratings supplied by these sources.

Cast: Nicolas Cage, Julianne Moore, Jessica Biel, Thomas Kretschmann, Jim Beaver

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