Bodega eventually learns that his possession is either in the hands of Jesus, or something has gone horribly wrong. Either way, Jesus, in Bodega’s mind, is lying, and this precipitates he and his own-right hand man to journey from LA to Philadelphia to get their money and, very possibly some scalps.

Of course, Jesus and Chita are aware that they’ll need to find the delivery man that confused Bodega’s drugs with someone else’s, if they want a shot of living another day. They track down a disorganized and sober Leo and make him slave to the package’s true location. With Bodega in tow, a veritable posse arrives at Brody and Guch’s door at the perfectly wrong time.

I won’t reveal the surprising and worthy ending, but it follows a well-made and balanced movie that feels like a low-budget comedy a big-budget company smartly financed. Next Day Air is not groundbreaking or even intelligent, but it has an affection and a real character in its portrayal of a great, under-the-radar screwball comedy. Boom shows an obvious connection to his cast; he knows that each one is somehow important, even in a superficial manner, in his directorial debut. It’s rare that a borderline-cult action/comedy/multi-hyphenate works as well as this. And what makes it click particularly is Blair Cobbs’s lean but effective comic script, one that emphasizes well the lively and sociable foolishness of its central and peripheral characters. Even with its rather simple story devices, a consistent humor and surprisingly distinguished characters make it more than worthwhile.

Final Grade: B+

Synopsis:

Life isn’t going smoothly for Leo Jackson. He still lives at home, he just broke up with his girlfriend and he’s had so many complaints about his sloppy work habits that his own mother is threatening to fire him. But Leo isn’t one to let a few bad breaks ruins his day—as long as he’s got plenty of weed to take his mind off his troubles. But when the wacked-out courier accidentally delivers a box containing 10 kilos of high quality cocaine to the wrong apartment, it sets in motion a hilarious and harrowing chain of events that could cost him his life.