Slow, boring, and long in running time.
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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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Reviews for City of Angels
A Hollywood movie about spirituality that touches audiences without insulting their intelligence.
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Although City of Angels sometimes dances perilously close to the line between romance and schmaltz, it never crosses it, a nifty maneuver when you consider that the story deals with both love and spirituality, two areas land-mined with cant.
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The film struggles to grasp some important topics...but the film has never attained the weight needed to deal with anything of substance.
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Glossy but with no heart, City of Angels is a smooth, unchallenging bit of fluff, about as romantic as a Hallmark card.
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Standard-issue Hollywood romantic fantasy.
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The movie has some good issues to raise about choices and destiny and intimacy and the importance of smelling the roses.
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A powerful, somber and highly intellectual picture, it is not even remotely the kind of thing one would expect to a Hollywood studio to mold into a star vehicle.
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Needless Hollywood dumbing-down of Wim Wenders.
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A romance and a tear-jerker, but what might have come off as simply maudlin, instead shines brightly with the fine acting of Meg Ryan and Nicolas Cage.
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As angel movies go, this is one of the better ones, not least because Meg Ryan is so sunny and persuasive as a heart surgeon who falls in love with an angel.
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Top CriticAn old-style Hollywood love story, a multi-hanky weeper.
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Awash in angelic choruses and panoramic scenery, the movie aspires toward a solemnity that Dana Stevens's prosaic psychobabbling screenplay cannot support.
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Top CriticThe emphasis in City of Angels is more on simple romance than lofty questions of eternity.
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The monotonic and glacially paced story eventually comes to its completely predictable and highly manipulative ending.
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A dazzling romantic drama with exquisite performances from Nicolas Cage and Meg Ryan.
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[Director Silberling] attempted to make a movie of pure sentiment, but whenever he seems to strike a genuine chord -- and he's clearly capable of touching the viewer -- he pushes it too far and it turns sappy.
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My idea for a tagline for this film: 'You will believe that an angel can have a boner.'
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