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What You Need To Know:
GOOD FORTUNE starts off a little slowly and never has any really huge laughs. However, it has many funny lines and situations that the cast performs with lively aplomb. Sadly, though, GOOD FORTUNE has lots of strong foul language. It also has a politically correct communist subtext about rich people versus poor people, brief drug content, and some goofy unbiblical religious ideas. People don’t become rich off the backs of poor people. GOOD FORTUNE is excessive and unacceptable.
Content:
Mixed pagan worldview with positive Christian, moral references to God, angels, saving “lost souls,” compassion, and helping needy people, with a bumbling angel trying to help an economically poor sad sack man, but the angel’s plan backfires, some false religion includes a boss angel punishes an incompetent angel by making him human, marred by politically correct Romantic, humanist, communist elements attacking capitalism that culminates with a major character spreading the Marxist lie that rich people always become wealthy on the backs of poor people ;
About 54 obscenities (including 33 “f” words), one strong profanity using the titular name Christ, two GD profanities, and three light profanities (such as OMG and OG);
Light violence includes angel convinces man not to commit suicide, a car accident sends one man into a coma, a nonfatal shooting;
No sex or sexual immorality, but there are two or so light innuendoes, plus one main character starts dating a young woman he met on one of his jobs;
Upper male nudity in sauna and pool scenes with some ladies in bikinis at a house party where there’s the same pool;
Some alcohol use;
People smoke cigarettes, and some drug use such as mushrooms and ayahuasca, plus a reference to crystal meth; and,
Man uses company credit card for a dinner date that’s far more expensive than he thought it would be, and his boss won’t let him pay it back, and a rich man is self-centered and rude.
More Detail:
Keanu Reeves plays an angel with small wings named Gabriel. Gabriel’s sole duty is to tap people on the shoulder whenever their penchant for texting while driving might cause an accident. For example, he taps one woman on her shoulder just in time for her to slam on her brakes to avoid a rear-end collision with the car ahead of her.
One day while doing his rounds, he starts to pity a poor working stiff, Arj, played by Aziz Ansari, who also directs and writes. Arj sleeps in his car, because he can’t afford a place to rent in Los Angeles. He does odd jobs for people through an app, but he doesn’t always get paid. For example, Gabriel watches Arj stand in line a long time for some special donuts, but the place runs out before he gets to the front of the line. However, a rich investor for the donut shop, Jeff, stops by and gets some donuts. Adding insult to injury, the man who hired Arj to wait in line for him refuses to pay Arj his fee, because he didn’t get the donuts. Both Arj and Gabrie are bothered by the injustice of all this.
As luck would have it, Jeff hires Arj to work for him through the app Arj uses. Jeff is dissatisfied with his current assistant. So, Arj does such a good job that he convinces Jeff to hire him as his assistant. Jeff is reluctant, but he agrees, on a one-week trial basis.
Things go very well for Arj, until he makes the mistake of using Jeff’s new company credit card to pay for a $300 dinner date with a woman Arj worked with at a Home Depot knockoff store. Arj felt justified because Jeff recommended the restaurant, and Jeff could just dock Arj’s pay. However, the next day Jeff immediately fires Arj and tells him to leave.
Arj is back where he started, homeless and living in his car, with no good job prospects. So, Gabriel decides to use his angelic powers to let Arj trade places with Jeff without Jeff knowing. Gabriel thinks Arj will discover that being rich and successful like Jeff is an empty, shallow life. However, much to the naïve Gabriel’s surprise, Arj refuses to switch back to his old life. Being rich and successful is just what Arj wanted!
Gabriel’s boss, Martha, removes his wings and turns him into a human being. Meanwhile, Jeff learns about Gabriel and what he did for Arj. He demands to be returned to his life, but it can’t happen unless Arj agrees to it.
Gabriel enjoys being a human (he loves chicken “nuggies” and street tacos), but he runs into problems. Will Gabriel ever get his wings back?
GOOD FORTUNE starts off a little slowly and never has any really huge laughs. However, it has many funny lines and situations that the cast performs with lively aplomb.
Sadly, though, GOOD FORTUNE has lots of strong foul language. It also has a politically correct communist subtext about rich people versus poor people, brief drug content, and some goofy unbiblical religious ideas.
For example, the politically correct communist subtext attacks the free market system. This content culminates in a false statement that rich people always become wealthy on the backs of poor people. This Marxist, socialist pizza pie fallacy that wealth is a zero sum game has been refuted. For example, according to the Adam Smith Institute, poor people, including the working poor (like the Arj character in this movie) do not gain wealth by having the government steal money from billionaires and millionaires. No, they gain wealth “by being part of an economy that grows” (Dr. Masden Pirie, “The Zero Sum Fallacy,” Adam Smith Institute, April 8, 2020, https://www.adamsmith.org/blog/the-zero-sum-fallacy). One of the best ways to gain wealth is to provide goods and services that other people want to buy. Also, competition helps hold prices down and increases job opportunities. Finally, the government’s job is to punish criminals whose activities reduce economic opportunities, not to provide government handouts.
In addition, the Bible never says or indicates that God or His angels can turn an angel into a human being. The results of Gabriel’s boss turning Gabirel into a human being are admittedly pretty funny, but this comical situation can’t occur.
MOVIEGUIDE® finds GOOD FORTUNE excessive and unacceptable.
