It wasn’t meant as a joke when a Hollywood studio cast Nicolas Cage as an emo angel who risks his wings to save Meg Ryan, a mortal with dark thoughts and great hair. But Aziz Ansari must have been smiling when he chose Keanu Reeves to play a similar character, an angel named Gabriel who oversteps his duties with a “lost soul,” in his feature directing debut, “ Good Fortune .” It’s a fun idea, whether or not Gen-Z audiences know “City of Angels,” the late-’90s remake of “Wings of Desire,” or the even earlier John Landis classic “Trading Places.”

In what amounts to a slightly ironic but mostly sincere homage to late-20th-century high-concept studio movies (the body-swap comedy in particular), Ansari plays Arj, a gig economy worker with an understandably exasperated view of life in Los

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