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CITY OF ANGELS Send This Review to a Friend
You think single women who complain that many of the men they meet are either married or gay have it bad? In CITY OF ANGELS heart surgeon Meg Ryan can't have the man she loves because he's an angel. Nicholas Cage as the angel is in even worse trouble. He can't have Ryan unless he decides to become human by giving up eternity in exchange for the ability to experience love and normal life on earth, perhaps even to go to movies like this one, an eternity in itself.
But love will find a way in this saccharine misfire based on Wim Wenders's 1987 German film "Wings of Desire," a quirky art film with charm and atmosphere to spare thanks to Wenders and the presence of Peter Falk, Bruno Ganz. and Solveig Dommartin. It also had more on its mind. In recent years Hollywood has taken to buying the rights to successful foreign language films and Americanizing them. This one has been unabashedly Hollywoodized into a sticky, banal love story that even the devil shouldn't have to sit through. A Warner Brothers release.
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