Official Synopsis:
It’s hilarity to the high heavens as Australia’s favorite funnyman, Paul Hogan (Crocodile Dundee) stars as a thief who is convinced he’s an angel. Hogan is career criminal Terry Dean, who’s hit by a car while saving the life of a little girl. When Terry regains consciousness, he awakens to a places strangely like heaven with a God who looks strangely like Charlton Heston! Terry emerges from this vision believing he’s an angel – a belief that propels him and those he encounters into humorous and heartfelt predicaments. Featuring Hogan’s Crocodile Dundee co-star Linda Kozlowski, Almost an Angel showcases Paul Hogan at his most irrepressible.
  
Our Take:
Almost an Angel is a sappy, lightweight movie that reunites Crocodile Dundee cast members Paul Hogan and Linda Kozlowski in an unsuccessful attempt to parlay their previous blockbuster movies into another studio payday.

Once again, Hogan blithely walks an American urban landscape without falling prey to the many dangers that exist there. The chemistry between Hogan and Kozlowski doesn’t work in this movie; the sparks don’t fly like they did in the earlier films. And, there are no memorable scenes like the one where Dundee tells a would-be mugger, “That’s not a knife; THIS is a knife.”

The concept of dead people returning to the world has produced some good movies, such as Pennies from Heaven, but this isn’t one of them.

There are no extras included on the DVD.

The mind is a terrible thing to waste, as the saying goes. If you want to waste your mind, though, watching Almost an Angel is as good a way as any, I suppose.

Overall Picture:
Movie: C-
DVD: C

- Tony Gray

Staff Writer