‘Good Fortune’ movie review: Keanu Reeves is an angel in Aziz Ansari-Seth Rogen body-swap zinger 

What a divine comedy this is! Set successful the City of Angels, Los Angeles, Good Fortune tells the adventures of a slightly bumbling angel, Gabriel (Keanu Reeves). At a gathering of angels, Gabriel, who is liable for watching over texting drivers, feels helium is not doing meaningful work, particularly aft helium hears different angel, Azrael (Stephen McKinley Henderson), redeeming yet different psyche by showing them the way.  

He asks his boss, Martha (Sandra Oh), to springiness him more responsibility, but Martha tells him to ore connected his work. On earth, Arj (Aziz Ansari), a documentary editor, is struggling to marque ends meet, working various jobs and sleeping successful his car, while hiding the bleak world of his beingness from his father. In his job astatine a hardware store, he meets Elena (Keke Palmer), who wants to combat for amended moving conditions. 

As a gig worker, helium meets Jeff, a tech bro, who agrees to a proceedings week of Arj as his assistant after Arj tidies Jeff’s garage. Arj’s duties see finding a shaman and setting up a disco level for Jeff’s 40^th birthday bash. A bid of unfortunate events cause Arj to suffer his occupation and erstwhile his car is towed distant arsenic he dozes off astatine a Denny’s, it seems Arj has definitely hit rock bottom. 

That is erstwhile Gabriel thinks of making things better. He wants to amusement Arj that beingness volition not beryllium immoderate amended with money and assemblage swaps Arj and Jeff. He fails spectacularly, as astir of Arj’s troubles are easily solved with Jeff’s money. Martha takes disconnected Gabriel’s wings for interfering and sends him to world arsenic a human. Jeff is in for a shock living like the plebs portion Gabriel is rather pleased to beryllium quality falling successful emotion with dancing, tacos and milkshakes even arsenic helium washes piles of dishes and watches babe elephants online.  

The lone mode for Gabriel to get his wings backmost is if Arj willingly switches backmost to his life. All 3 larn important beingness lessons — from wealth not solving each problems (it does smoothen the way) to the hardships of the gig system (it is truthful casual to gully parallels with our app-driven lives greased by delivery people run to the bone). 

The cast riff off each other, sparking each sorts of bully vigor — from Reeves grooving to immoderate concealed music in his celestial head and Oh’s rariefied wisdom, to Rogen’s horrified find of however the remainder of the satellite lives. Ansari, who has written and directed Good Fortune, has been quoted arsenic saying helium wanted to “write astir things that everyone is dealing with that nary 1 is talking about” and helium does so with style in the charming movie filled with good humour and feelings, wherever the jokes and observations onshore consistently. Last thought — is Arj a play connected Raj? 

Good Fortune is presently moving successful theatres