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Seth is an angel who accompanies the spirits of the recently dead to the ever after. But he begins finding his job difficult as he falls in love with Maggie, a beautiful heart surgeon. Now Seth must decide if love is more important than eternal peace.
Funnier than Wenders' version, and it also succeeds in visualising LA as a magical city while dealing intelligently with the themes of mortality, sacrifice, free will, and the mixed blessings of the human condition.
City of Angels is the sort of compromised movie that could have been almost good, but decided to be a great big hit instead.
January 02, 2005
Common Sense Media
Glossy romance as an angel falls for a surgeon.
December 22, 2010
Variety
As a remake it's not as poetic as Wenders' masterpiece Wings of Desire, but it's supremely mounted (by ace lenser John Seale) and contains touching performances from Nicolas Cage and Meg Ryan deviating from their respective screen images.
June 01, 2006
Reeling Reviews
An emotionally uninvolving flick that attempts to play on the heart strings of the viewer and fails in its effort.
My face had been locked in that goofy, awestruck expression you experience only in Spielberg movies. City of Angels demonstrates the best kind of emotionally manipulative filmmaking.