Keanu Reeves is best known right now for the John Wick franchise. But there’s a lot more to the actor than tailored suits, Judo, dog vengeance and that way he puts three extra syllables in the word CONSEQUENCES. He’s about to star in Good Fortune, Aziz Ansari’s comeback project and he looks like he’s having a blast. Alasdair Stuart takes a look…

0.13 – Ted Theodore Logan Energy

Look at this adorable doofus! Look at how easily this man, who has spent the last decade playing the assassin assassins have nightmares about, shifting gear so effortlessly. God he’s good!

0.27 – Wings of PUT THE PHONE DOWN

There is something impossibly sweet about an angel overseeing saving people from texting and driving. Also, there’s a lot of imagery here that evokes Wim Wenders’ classic angel duology Wings of Desire and Faraway, So Close and if you haven’t seen them, you should. Hell, see City of Angels the Nicolas Cage/Meg Ryan/Andre Braugher remake if you can. Very different, but still worth your time.

0.39 – ‘The people that actually get to live.’

There’s a very definite steer away from the fetishization and idolisation of billionaires in pop culture right now and GOD isn’t it like the Sun starting to come out?

0.58 – Jeff’s Wonderful Life

Oh we’re speedrunning angel movies! Brilliant! So this is It’s A Wonderful Life, the classic where Jimmy Stewart plays a man convinced his life is meaningless, and is shown what the world would be like without him by a trainee (or perhaps, as described here ‘budget’?) angel.

1.05 – ‘He has your life.’

I’m not a fan of Aziz Ansari but he’s very good at cheerfully malicious emotional honesty. Who hasn’t wanted to laugh their ass off because a billionaire gets to work UberEats instead of be rich and probably fascist?

1.09 – Sandra Oh!

With her and Reeves this has surely reached some sort of Performer You Are Always Happy To See singularity.

1.16 – ‘It seems to have solved most of his problems.’

Keanu Reeves is one of the best deadpan comedians on Earth. This made me laugh so hard.

1.20 – And also Trading Places

Jeff knowing the deal is a very smart twist, evoking the classic Eddie Murphy/Dan Ackroyd movie. It also probably opens the door to Jeff getting a heart and the capability to feel emotions from something other than an LLM.

1.51 – ‘Get me God, I want a meeting with God.’

Seth Rogen’s a surprisingly similar talent to Reeves in some ways. He’s got frantic Muppet energy a lot of the time, but the dude has a very still core that performances like this bring out. To be clear, I loathe characters like Jeff and everything they stand for and everything they’ve done. But if anyone can make me believe one of them is a real boy? It’s Seth Rogen.

Also Fry Cook Gabriel is a LOOK isn’t it?

Also also, that line at the end about how Gabriel is smoking now. Does he get fired? Does this become a story about three guys trying to turn their lives into something else?

Regardless, this looks enormous fun and is out 17th October

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