Review – City of Angels

It’s a pretty safe bet that when a kid dies in the first few minutes of a movie that the film-makers won’t feel any too bad about spending the next couple of hours bumming you out. After the first half hour or so the film moves on from its morbid obsession with death and gets about the task of establishing a romance between surgeon Meg Ryan and angel Nicholas Cage, who becomes human for the sake of love. However, death comes back in full force a little later on; more than that I can’t tell you without ruining the ending. For such a depressing movie, it actually could have been a whole lot worse. Mildly amusing