d-00278 I guess every man wants a Angel A. She's so pretty,considerate and do everything he says. Andre's a loser by any standards and Angel comes down from heaven to save his life. It won't happen actually but the film makes it come true. I love the film so much that I took the poster as my wallpaper of my phone.

Mike B A quirky drama – sci-fi –thriller, romance ... set in Paris which forms a tremendous backdrop to this black and white movie. Sometimes I didn't know whether to look at the scenery or pay attention to the dialogue which is very fast-paced – to the point of being unrelenting. It's a good performance by Jamel Debbouze who gets involved in a very peculiar relation with Rie Rasmussen. Sometimes this works, at other times it just seems a little too flashy and over the top. The main character (played by Jamel Debbouze) has a truck-load of problems and the resolutions to some of them are just a little too neat.Nevertheless the two main characters do enthrall us with the Parisian backdrop.

ThreeGuysOneMovie So I was searching around the media sites for something to watch the other night and after going through Netflix, Vudu, and Hulu, I didn't see anything that really caught my eye. Finally I gave Crackle a look and I stumbled across this movie by Luc Besson from back in 2005. I enjoyed the Leon: The Professional and La Femme Nikita so I figured I would give this one a try.The story revolves around Andre a down on his luck immigrant living in Paris. He seems to owe money to everyone in the city and they are looking to collect by whatever means necessary. Facing an untimely death anyway, Andre decides to take his own life by jumping into a river.Before he can jump he meets a six foot tall blonde woman named Angela who is also attempting to kill herself in the same fashion. She jumps, and Andre jumps in to save her. Andre manages to pull her out of the river, and Angela, in order to pay back Andre for saving her life, tells Andre that she is going to help him earn back the money he owes so that he can start his life fresh.It is not really giving anything away here to tell you that Angela is actually and Angel that was sent down to save Andre's life. (Angela = Angel-A get it? Oh luc you sly devil you.) Basically, what you are looking at here is 2 parts Its a Wonderful Life and 1 Part Wings Of Desire. Everything about Angel-A is largely derivative and this movie isn't bringing anything new to the table. Just like Wings the movie was shot in black and white and we get to see lots a scenes of architecture from around the city. The black and white doesn't really add any depth to this film.I didn't recognize the two leads from anything else I had seen. Jamel Debbouze was OK as Andre but his performance seems a bit over the top. He chews through his scenes like the Tasmanian devil from the Looney Tunes cartoons. Rie Rasmussen started off with a decent performance but he character gets more and more ham fisted as the movie progress.Angel-A can safely be skipped. If you haven't seen Wings of Desire yet then I highly recommend checking that film out instead.

rapace33 "Angel-A" it is some kind of a French remake from the movie "It's a Wonderful Life" with James Stewart. If you love Paris, You will love this movie. A magnificent cinematography in black-and-white in the landscapes of the city of lights. Paris ( la Belle ). As a Parisian myself now leaving in the USA, I am also recommending to watch the making of the movie, fascinating. Tons of Behind the Scenes Footage. "Mais biensur", knowing the French language helps tremendously. I am certain that it is losing a lot in translation because of the extensive use of the slang language by all the characters in the movie. it is not as powerful the movie "It's a Wonderful Life" or the movie "some like it hot" or "the misfit" all movies made in black and white. Yet it grows on you and it is an excellent comedy, when you have been able to stop judging the movie for the choice of all the characters. But I realized that to make the movie plausible, the choice of characters make sense even though that I would have preferred to here the language of Molière, but we are in the 21st century where French language now are using words such as computeur or couriel. Not a lot to celebrate about the French language nowadays, I know that the French have drifted away from the writing of Victor Hugo or Balzac. I am accepting the evolution of the language and I can therefore say that I have enjoyed the movie.