Good Fortune
Good Fortune
In Good Fortune, Ansari plays a down-on-his-luck guy who is working myriad jobs. He's hired by a new acquaintance (played by Seth Rogen), who lives in the Hollywood Hills, to do various jobs for him - put in a disco floor, fix the pool heater. Keanu Reeves "valley" angel makes it so Rogen's rich guy situation is swapped with Ansari, so the latter has the former's life.
RipLinesMan reviewed5d ago
Good Fortune treats luck the way Event Horizon (1997) treats space, as a corridor to the pit disguised as a shortcut, and that frame lets the comedy click into a sharp moral machine; Aziz Ansari’s down-on-his-luck striver tries to behave like Captain Miller, sealing the airlocks on bad choices, while Keanu Reeves’ valley angel feels like a smiling Dr William Weir, a guide who keeps steering the ship toward the red glow, with Seth Rogen’s Hollywood Hills employer rattling the bulkheads through easy temptation and Keke Palmer giving the story its living stakes while Sandra Oh, Sherry Cola, and Stephen McKinley Henderson form a dry, pragmatic chorus. Paul W. S. Anderson’s film is a masterpiece of moral geometry, and the same duel between protocol and rapture animates Ansari’s setup, where each miracle lands like an engine alarm and every favor increases the pressure until cause and consequence fuse; the result is fizzy and humane on the surface, quietly hellish underneath, a satire that understands how a wish can open a door that was never meant to be opened.