Quartile rating: 5.5/10 · 1 rating
Tabloid reporters are sent by their editor to investigate after the paper recieves a letter from a woman claiming an angel is living with her.
Michael (1996) is a middling fantasy-comedy that coasts on John Travolta's charismatic but broad performance as a slovenly, cigarette-smoking angel. The plot is formulaic road-trip fare with predictable emotional beats and a love story that feels engineered rather than earned. Cinematography is workmanlike and unremarkable. The premise has a mildly quirky hook but the execution is largely by-the-numbers, failing to develop its angel-as-flawed-deity concept in any distinctive way. The ending leans into saccharine sentimentality without sufficient narrative grounding. Travolta is the main draw and elevates the material somewhat, but the film as a whole is a forgettable mid-90s studio comedy.