{"id":2013496,"date":"2025-09-11T06:20:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T06:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2013496"},"modified":"2025-09-11T06:20:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T06:20:09","slug":"good-fortune-review-keanu-reeves-brainless-angel-runs-away-with-aziz-ansaris-feature-directing-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/good-fortune-review-keanu-reeves-brainless-angel-runs-away-with-aziz-ansaris-feature-directing-debut\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Good Fortune\u2019 Review: Keanu Reeves\u2019 Brainless Angel Runs Away With Aziz Ansari\u2019s Feature Directing Debut"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It wasn\u2019t meant as a joke when a Hollywood studio cast Nicolas Cage<\/a> as an emo angel who risks his wings to save Meg Ryan<\/a>, a mortal with dark thoughts and great hair. But Aziz Ansari<\/a> must have been smiling when he chose Keanu Reeves<\/a> to play a similar character, an angel named Gabriel who oversteps his duties with a \u201clost soul,\u201d in his feature directing debut, \u201cGood Fortune<\/a>.\u201d It\u2019s a fun idea, whether or not Gen-z audiences know \u201cCity of Angels<\/a>,\u201d the late-\u201990s remake of \u201cWings of Desire<\/a>,\u201d or the even earlier John Landis<\/a> classic \u201cTrading Places<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

In what amounts to a slightly ironic but mostly sincere homage to late-20th-century high-concept studio movies (the body-swap comedy in particular), Ansari<\/a> plays Arj, a gig economy worker with an understandably exasperated view of life in Los Angeles. Running errands for rich people on Taskrabbit, he barely earns enough to eat,…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It wasn\u2019t meant as a joke when a Hollywood studio cast Nicolas Cage as an emo angel who risks his wings to save Meg Ryan, a mortal with dark thoughts and great hair. But Aziz Ansari must have been smiling when he chose Keanu Reeves to play a similar character, an angel named Gabriel who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2013497,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2013496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/\u2018Good-Fortune-Review-Keanu-Reeves-Brainless-Angel-Runs-Away-With.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2013496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2013496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2013496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2013497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2013496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2013496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2013496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}