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03/24/02
City of Angels (1998)
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Reviews Counted:57
Fresh:34
Rotten:23
Average Rating:6.3/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 2 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Based in part on Wim Wenders's 1988 film, WINGS OF DESIRE, this is the story of Seth (Nicolas Cage), an angel who wanders the Los Angeles area invisible to humans. As someone's death approaches,... [More]
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Meg Ryan, Dennis Franz, Andre Braugher
Director: Brad Silberling
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01/07/09
Strains to achieve the enchantingly sublime, but ends up sinking to the depressingly ridiculous.
04/27/07
Top CriticCity of Angels requires a deft, poetic hand. It's a fragile story that needs to unfold slowly without sledgehammering its audience. Unfortunately, those behind the enterprise haven't the required skill.
01/01/00
An unconvincing new age melodrama that plays like Death and Dying for Dummies.
01/01/00
Why would anyone remake Wim Wenders' masterpiece, Wings of Desire? Certainly not for artistic reasons.
08/11/03
No review available.
08/08/02
The movie has its affecting moments, but the drearily inevitable has come true -- an original and rather haunting poetic conception has been turned into a literal-minded love story.
01/01/00
Top CriticSuperb imagery can't compensate for deficiencies of Dana Steven's script and can't hide the formulaic nature of this film.
06/02/04
[Cage] is miscast in a film which, despite the spiritual nature of its theme, is a by- the-numbers bit of commerce.
01/01/00
This useless remake lacks the sheer ethereal beauty of the original Wings of Desire.
10/06/03
Slow, boring, and long in running time.
01/01/00
A thinking person's film for those who can't think.
05/20/03
The film struggles to grasp some important topics...but the film has never attained the weight needed to deal with anything of substance.
01/01/00
Glossy but with no heart, City of Angels is a smooth, unchallenging bit of fluff, about as romantic as a Hallmark card.
01/01/00
Standard-issue Hollywood romantic fantasy.
01/01/00
City of Angels is the sort of compromised movie that could have been almost good, but decided to be a great big hit instead.
01/02/05
Needless Hollywood dumbing-down of Wim Wenders.
01/01/00
An emotionally uninvolving flick that attempts to play on the heart strings of the viewer and fails in its effort.
04/09/05
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