The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, April 13, 1998, Image 5

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City of Angels
Starring Nicolas Cage ax
Meg Ryan
Directed by Brad Sib<
Rated PG -13
Playing at Hollywood:
Critique: B
F or Easter weekend,
City of Angels made
its way to theaters. It
is a film about the fine
line between humans and
the angels who watch
over them.
Nicolas Cage plays Seth,
a messenger of God, who
walks the earth with a mul
titude of others.
The only thing separat
ing Seth from the other
messengers is that he finds
himself falling in love with
a human.
Meg Ryan, as Dr. Maggie
Rice, is a surgeon who one
day ponders the ultimate
question of whether it is her
job to keep people alive or
angels’ jobs to take them to
a better place.
When Seth decides he
wants to be seen by this hu
man doctor, all principles
the two ever held during
their lives become turned
upside down.
Suddenly, Seth is
thrown into a whirlwind
of wanting to know what it
is like to touch, smell,
taste and breath ... all the
things people take for
granted sometimes.
Luckily, Seth runs into
Dennis Franz who was once
a messenger himself and
one day decided to literally
Nicolas Cage (Seth ‘Plate’) and Meg Ryan (Dr. Maggie Rice) star
in City of Angels, a romantic drama dealing with hope and desire.
take the plunge in order to
achieve humanity by losing
his angelic nature.
But before people begin
to think it should be a sim
ple decision for Seth, the
good doctor’s boyfriend
asks her to marry him.
Now she is forced to
choose between a man who
wants to marry her and a
messenger of God whose
only desire is to know what
her hair smells like.
The acting in City of An
gels is not overplayed, which
only adds to the film’s quiet
and thought-provoking plot
and characterizations.
Ryan gives a heartfelt per
formance as a woman too
busy with work and too
overcome to realize the fact
that sometimes people die
and even as a doctor, some-
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most of
times she cannot be there to
help them.
Cage, as always, gives his
puppydog song-and-dance
smile, experiencing new
things every time he meets
up with the doctor.
His character pulls at the
heartstrings, leaving audi
ences with a feeling of want
ing him to become human
and live forever with his love.
Overall, the film attempts
to deliver a good message
about love, religion and the
human condition.
There are a few se
quences, however, that
could have been ex
plained in further detail in
order to give closure to
the film when the lights
come up in the theater.
Still, Ryan and Cage bring
tears to the eyes.
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