Good Fortune (2025)

Good Fortune (2025)

6/10

Starring

Seth Rogen

Aziz Ansari

Keke Palmer

Sandra Oh

Keanu Reeves

 

Directed by: Aziz Ansari

 

Well, I have gotten to the end of the film, and it is not bad, it is not great or superb, but it is not bad, and it took a different path to get the same predictable ending we all know movies like this go. Acting-wise, everyone delivered, I have no complaints, and I think Keanu Reeves did a nice job playing an angel who just wanted to do good and be respected and then messed everything up.

Story-wise, I think Aziz Ansari, who also directed, wrote, and starred in this flick, did a nice job. I would have loved if the character Jeff, played by Seth Rogen, went back to being himself, that would have surprised me, but like I said, movies like this round things up in a perfect predictable circle.

The comedy is a miss for me, this is more like drama and see-what-happens when a body swap goes wrong, the whole idea is. Imagine a body swap meant to show the character Arj (Ansari) that his life would not have been better if he switched roles with Jeff. Well, the swap happened thanks to an angel named Gabriel, who was hoping to save a lost soul, the one in Arj.

Problem, Arj, now living the life of Jeff, liked it. After a week of being Jeff, never having to actually worry about money, he did not want to go back.

Gabriel, who was hoping that this swap would teach Arj, a man who just lost his job and is living in his car, that his future would always be a struggle, wanted him to see that life is not always greener on the other side. But Arj was now living the life of a millionaire, he happy.

Now, another problem for Gabriel, he cannot send Arj back, Arj has to want to go back. So to guilt him, he returned Jeff’s memory of his life, but Jeff telling Arj he wants his life back did nothing to guilt Arj. Even the girl Arj wanted, he got. Money was actually a solution to all his problems.
So Gabriel gets demoted until he can solve this issue.

So that is what this movie is about, we are watching Gabriel trying to solve a problem he has caused. Now, Gabriel the angel was actually an angel of texting and driving. His job was to alert people who are texting and driving so they do not get into an accident, this whole problem he caused, he did on his own and was not sent.

Well, the other issue with this movie is that it is not rewatchable. It is a good watch if you have a lazy Sunday, but not one I will run back to go see after seeing it. So it is watchable, but just the once.