The other day, my wife and I were hunting for something to watch, and while scrolling through Amazon Prime Video, we stumbled across Good Fortune. Keanu Reeves was front and center, and that alone made it feel like a safe bet. That’s just how lovable he is, both as an actor and as a human being.

Keanu Reeves plays Gabriel, who is not a seraphim, cherubim, or an archangel. Most of his supernatural job description involves sitting in people’s cars and quietly warning them when they’re about to crash from texting and driving. He’s nobody’s personal guardian angel. He just bounces from car to car.

That all changes when he meets a guy named Raj, a young Indian American man having a genuinely rough go of it in Southern California. His college degree left him buried in debt, he has no stable housing, he showers at the gym, and he spends most of his time cobbling together part-time jobs and gig work like food delivery.

Gabriel wants to show him that his life is worth living, but it quickly becomes obvious that the angel is way more optimistic than any human could reasonably be. Raj’s life genuinely sucks. He barely has any fun, he’s literally homeless, and nothing seems to be going his way.

The one bright spot for Raj is a crush on a coworker at the hardware store where he works, and she likes him back enough that there’s real potential there. Still, it’s a little hard to picture Keke Palmer and Aziz Ansari together, so buying them as a fictional couple takes some effort. I did enjoy her subplot about trying to unionize the workplace, though. I used to work for Lowe’s, and I’d imagine Home Depot is no different. They’re notoriously anti-union. They’d sooner shut a store down or eat any fine than let one unionize and put their precious profits at risk.

Anyway, back to the movie. Raj eventually crosses paths with a super-rich guy named Jeff, who has far more money than he actually contributes to society. Gabriel tries to convince Raj that Jeff’s life isn’t nearly as perfect as it looks from the outside.

Honestly, the movie wasn’t my favorite. It’s billed mostly as a comedy, but the grim realities of late-stage capitalism can hit you with some real secondhand despair. Even so, the film doesn’t really find its comedic footing until Gabriel reveals himself to Jeff, and the two of them form a genuinely funny little duo.

Aziz Ansari, on top of starring, also directed the movie, like he was Orson Welles tackling Citizen Kane or something. He pulls off a decent job on both fronts, but the movie just doesn’t quite reach greatness. I can already picture myself forgetting it entirely in five to ten years. It’s also a little hard to take seriously, since Aziz Ansari is in his early 40s, making the material feel like it would land much better with someone in their early 20s. Realistically, someone like Raj probably wouldn’t exist at that age without a serious drug problem, gambling addiction, or some kind of mental health crisis driving that level of hardship.