It wasn’t 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 oversteps his duties with a “lost soul” — in his feature directing debut, “Good Fortune.” It’s a fun idea, whether or not Gen Z audiences know “City of Angels,” the late-’90s remake of “Wings of Desire,” or the even earlier John Landis classic “Trading Places.”
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