Good Fortunemovie overview:Keanu Reeves is an angel in Aziz Ansari-Seth Rogen body-swapzinger

What a divine comedy that is! Set within the City of Angels, Los Angeles, Good Fortune tells the adventures of a barely bumbling angel, Gabriel (Keanu Reeves). At a gathering of angels, Gabriel, who is chargeable for watching over texting drivers, feels he’s not doing significant work, particularly after he hears one other angel, Azrael (Stephen McKinley Henderson), saving one more soul by exhibiting them the best way.  

He asks his boss, Martha (Sandra Oh), to provide him extra accountability, however Martha tells him to focus on his work. On earth, Arj (Aziz Ansari), a documentary editor, is struggling to make ends meet, working numerous jobs and sleeping in his automobile, whereas hiding the grim actuality of his life from his father. In his job at a ironmongery shop, he meets Elena (Keke Palmer), who needs to battle for higher working circumstances. 

As a gig employee, he meets Jeff, a tech bro, who agrees to a trial week of Arj as his assistant after Arj tidies Jeff’s storage. Arj’s duties embody discovering a shaman and establishing a disco flooring for Jeff’s fortieth birthday bash. A collection of unlucky occasions trigger Arj to lose his job and when his automobile is towed away as he dozes off at a Denny’s, it appears Arj has undoubtedly hit all-time low. 

That is when Gabriel thinks of creating issues higher. He needs to point out Arj that life won’t be any higher with cash and physique swaps Arj and Jeff. He fails spectacularly, as most of Arj’s troubles are simply solved with Jeff’s cash. Martha takes off Gabriel’s wings for interfering and sends him to earth as a human. Jeff is in for a shock residing like the plebs whereas Gabriel is kind of happy to be human falling in love with dancing, tacos and milkshakes at the same time as he washes piles of dishes and watches child elephants on-line.  

The solely method for Gabriel to get his wings again is that if Arj willingly switches again to his life. All three study vital life classes — from cash not fixing all issues (it does smoothen the best way) to the hardships of the gig economic system (it’s so straightforward to attract parallels with our app-driven lives greased by supply individuals run to the bone). 

The solid riff off one another, sparking all kinds of excellent vitality — from Reeves grooving to some secret music in his celestial head and Oh’s rariefied knowledge, to Rogen’s horrified discovery of how the remainder of the world lives. Ansari, who has written and directed Good Fortune, has been quoted as saying he wished to “write about issues that everybody is coping with that nobody is speaking about” and he does so with type in the charming movie stuffed with good humour and emotions, the place the jokes and observations land constantly. Last thought — is Arj a play on Raj? 

Good Fortune is presently working in theatres