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Seth is an angel who accompanies the spirits of the recently dead to the ever after. But he begins finding his job difficult as he falls in love with Maggie, a beautiful heart surgeon. Now Seth must decide if love is more important than eternal peace.
As a remake it's not as poetic as Wenders' masterpiece Wings of Desire, but it's supremely mounted (by ace lenser John Seale) and contains touching performances from Nicolas Cage and Meg Ryan deviating from their respective screen images.
June 01, 2006
Common Sense Media
Glossy romance as an angel falls for a surgeon.
December 22, 2010
Los Angeles Times
It manages to leave a pleasant afterglow for those in the mood for its kind of loving.
Funnier than Wenders' version, and it also succeeds in visualising LA as a magical city while dealing intelligently with the themes of mortality, sacrifice, free will, and the mixed blessings of the human condition.
My face had been locked in that goofy, awestruck expression you experience only in Spielberg movies. City of Angels demonstrates the best kind of emotionally manipulative filmmaking.