Keanu Reeves is about to cause celestial chaos in Good Fortune, a surreal new comedy from Aziz Ansari that throws divine interference, class anxiety, and total spiritual confusion into a blender. The film lands in theatres October 17, and judging by the trailer, it’s shaping up to be one of the strangest ensemble comedies of the year.
Take a look for yourself right here:
Reeves plays Gabriel, an angel who’s all heart, no brains, and barely qualified to be in charge of a houseplant, let alone human fate. He’s sent to Earth on a mission he doesn’t really understand, and the result is a cosmic f**k up that slams together two very different lives: Aziz Ansari as a burnt out gig worker spiralling toward rock bottom, and Seth Rogen as a delusional tech bro in desperate need of a moral gut punch.
It’s part Bruce Almighty, part Being John Malkovich, part spiritual fever dream. Sounds pretty out there right?
Reeves is hilariously misplaced, bringing his signature deadpan weirdness to a role that could’ve easily been forgettable in someone else’s hands, but as always he delivers. Ansari, who also writes and directs, leans into the anxious chaos, while Rogen gives us his classic cocktail of smugness and flop sweat (That only he can). Somehow, it works.
Good Fortune is Ansari’s first major swing post Master of None, and it goes hard: surreal visual gags, offbeat pacing, and more commentary on inequality and karma than you’d expect from a film full of winged metaphors and fart jokes.
Backed by StudioCanal, this could either be a mess or a cult classic in the making. Either way, we are all about it.
Bring on October!
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