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Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

When l'd watched not completely City of Angels around 2000 l'd found it 6/10, but revisiting the entire movie on Blu-ray and a dubbed version l'd change my mind, this remake of Wings of Disere deserve at least 7/10 indeed, has a brilliant adaptation to nowadays of this sobrenatural and romantic story, Meg Ryan is thin but beauty as Doctor who was depressed when a patient dies on your hands and Cage has a decent acting as Seth the rebel Angel..and Dennis Franz has a fantastic performance as a former Angel...touching romance,watchable and pleasant movie!!!

This is an excellent simple film based on raw human emotion. No trickery or CGI needed. This is by far Cage and Ryan's best film of all the films they've ever starred in my opinion. This movie is a total sleeper.I have watched this movie at least 20 times and it still has the same effect on me. It makes me shed tears uncontrollably and that says a lot for a film because I'm not an easy cry in film or life.This film should touch you at a level of humanity and frailty because it's something we all have in common no matter what walk of life you come from. Loving someone, loosing them, life and death is something we will all experience if blessed with that much time.***SPOILER ALERT***For some, time is not on their side as you saw with the child in the beginning of the film. For me the first tears flowed with the loss of the husband/father and how unexpected it was for the doctor let alone his grief stricken family.And then for an Atheist arrogant doctor to finally realize that she has no power to save life given all her education and hard work, that it is not up to her for someone to live. All she can do is the best she can do by her profession and let God's will be done is quite an interesting revelation.On a side note last year I was in a house fire and flat-lined within minutes of being handed off from the ambulance to the trauma unit. No pulse no respiratory...nothing. And in that moment the last thing I remember thinking was, i'm going to die and I'm not ready. After being resuscitated and awakening from a coma nearly 3 days later, I talked to the arrogant surgeon who felt I should acknowledge that he saved my life.If that were true by his account, then no one should ever die in emergency rooms. Like Seth's character says "people die when their bodies give out" and the good doctor Maggie replies "it's my job to keep their bodies from giving out, what am I doing here".I know that doctor played a small part in my still being here, but not in the way he thinks. He feels he intervened and restored my life. And that is where he is arrogant. It was God, who intervened and restored my life giving me more time. Had that not been God's will that flat-line would have been permanent and no amount of education, skill or technology would change that.That is what I like most about this film. "Some things are true whether you believe them or not". And when Seth finally reveals himself to Maggie she within an instant physically assaults him without even thinking about it. Her reaction is violent and typical given human beings fear and reject what they don't understand. For me, this was one of the best scenes in the film, though there were many.I don't know how I would respond if a man I was interested in dating,but had become suspicious about, (not because he was a cheat, a liar, a womanizer, but because of his awkward innocence and inexperience and questioning of the simplest things), like "what does a pear taste like". I don't know how I'd react if he revealed and proved himself to be an Angel of God that was in love with me.I'd probably feel ashamed, and wonder why something so perfect would have any feeling for something so flawed and tainted. But I can't honestly say whether or not I would have been afraid or reacted out of fear and become violent. I may have had a similar or worse reaction, like Maggie's character even more so because I do believe in God.For Seth who longed to be with Maggie and gave up eternity as an Angel/Messenger of God, for a short time only to end up being a weak, frail and vulnerable human being. Which so many things about being human are wonderful, like the sense of color, taste, touch smell, orgasm etc. And then for Seth to only have one night with Maggie before being alone in the world, in an lonely existence having no parents, siblings or "human" friends (With the exception of Messenger of course, who was a former celestial body himself). All things being equal and having there opposite/negative side their is much pain in the existence of a human life, mental, physical and spiritual if one is enlightened enough to know there is a spirit. We are not just the lump sum of micro organisms that evolved from pond scum and we are more than just physical cells under a microscope.There is more to life than the limitation of one's flesh. The spirit and the flesh are two separate things. Every time a body dies, a new body is born for which a spirit must reside.This movie touches me on so many levels and I hope it does for you as well if you are open to it. It is definitely a keeper, re- watcher and one of my top 10 in the DVD collection.Enjoy!look4me_1999@yahoo.com

In the 90s everything was about angels. We had Angel the spin off of Buffy the Vampire Slayer,Touched By An Angel,songs about Angels and of course this 1998 underrated flick City Of Angels. Nicholas Cage(Ghost Rider)plays Seth,an angel who is sent to earth to help those who are dying move on. But of course problems arise when Seth falls for a heart surgeon named Maggie Grace(Kate & Leopold's Meg Ryan who was our all time American Sweetheart back in the 90s before she gave up acting).So we as the audience have to wonder whether or not these two are gonna end up together. Of course Seth does turn mortal later on by jumping off a building and he falls and produces lots of blood and of course he gets to be near Maggie(even though she can sorta see him before he turned mortal. But there is a risk factor of course since Seth became human as for those who has seen the film Maggie dies in an accident while cycling in her bike and a lorry crashed into her causing her to die while Seth came on her(yeah Meg Ryan's first flick where she literally dies in).I haven't seen this film in a long time but from what I can remember from it I thought it was an OK film. Pretty much like The Lake House and Just Like Heaven if you love those two movies then you will definitely be liking this film. Cage and Ryan had great chemistry although I do prefer her chemistry with Tom Hanks though more and I suppose her co star in Kate & Leopold Hugh Jackman. But still if you are like me a fan of Meg Ryan then check it out. I might see it again in the future who knows. And the song Iris by Goo Goo Dolls is the main theme song.

City of Angels is that rare movie that taps into the same emotions as the best pop songs. It's not a deep movie. It's sentimental and it hits all the right emotional buttons.Like many great pop songs it celebrates the power of romantic love. In this instance, it celebrates the fantasy of the perfect love and lover as an angel. Because angels are divine and don't tell lies and make promises they don't intend to keep.Both men and women find this movie romantic, and that's unusual.Now, this movie is nothing to do with 'Wings of Desire', the film by the German auteur Wim Wenders - except for the original concept. It's definitely not a remake and implying it is sells both films short. They could not be more different: one is Coke and the other is Champagne.A lot of people were disappointed by this movie because they expected to see an adaptation of a European Art film without subtitles. Lovers of art films need to learn to read subtitles.For me, City of Angels is simply that one unforgettable summer. It's a glorious night of slow dances under a night sky full of stars. An ode to that one incredible impossible love and how close a dream came to being real.