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A nuclear bomb has been smuggled into the United States; it has been deployed somewhere near Las Vegas; no one knows who is behind it and why.

And guess what the FBI as well as the conspirators are doing in the hours counting up to the last few minutes for millions of people on the planet? They are looking for a man with the power to look into the future — he can predict things precisely two minutes before they happen to him, and to him alone.

The FBI knows it. Certainly Agent Farris (Moore) does. But apparently they all consider this two-minute, tentative headstart worth the risk of not doing anything else to avoid a nuclear catastrophe.

This ‘clairvoyant’ or small-time magician as he would like to call himself, Cris ‘Frank Cadillac’ Johnson (Cage), meanwhile, has his own agenda. He is trying to chase a girl who keeps recurring in his ‘visions’, and so brushes aside all requests of help from the FBI. Considering that if that bomb goes off, neither will there be a vision nor a girl, his calmness in going quite calmly about town sipping coffee and looking for her is remarkable.

Of course Cris finds the girl, Elizabeth (Biel), and in the middle of literally a time bomb, they find time to bond over Grand Canyon and to make out before a tearful farewell.

As for the whos, whys, wheres of the nuclear attack, do you really care? As long as the attackers are people talking some ‘foreign’ language.

Even if Next survives this nuclear disaster, Cage certainly won’t. First Ghost Rider, and now this strange act with a stranger hairstyle which, incidentally, seems to have survived a disaster of its own. No special powers needed to predict the future of this venture, two minutes and beyond.