Watch if you like crocodile Dundee. A guy who's amazing with electronics is let out of prison and on leaving he jokes around opening all the prison cell doors via a small device. Oddly everyone everyone laughs and he doesn't get arrested. But the point is that he's smart and could have been someone but maybe by his nature and maybe from upbringing (who knows) it didn't work out for him? But he's not exactly antisocial either so it doesnt work for the character if you think about it. I could see the sad end coming but it still worked. I think it was maybe too much of a downer at the end even with the explanation to try and lift the viewer. If Steve never avoided the police who were after Terry he wouldn't have died at the time he did. Thanks guardian angel Terry. One moral slant too many? Elias did a great job acting and the friendship was never too cheesy. His acting made me care for the character in an otherwise average movie. The dialogue had glimpses of great deadpan humour but it wasn't enough. Hogan plays his usual part.

It's not that funny or exciting or even heart warming but it's perfectly watchable if you don't expect too much. A good family movie.

You and me boss, we make a good team.

Terry Dean is an exceptional career criminal, after his release from prison he is hit by a car whilst saving a young boy. He awakes in what appears to be a heavenly place, and much to his surprise he is visited by a deity and told that he is on probation, he is in short...almost an angel.

Paul Hogan will forever be known as the bloke from Crocodile Dundee, a highly efficient fish out of water comedy that became a huge hit. However, the sequels and his other subsequent film's are either roundly ignored or highly frowned upon. That's a shame because Almost An Angel is a very engaging comedy, the sort of picture that stands up like a Capraesque piece for the 90s. It's the sort of fable that cheers one up when the blues draw in and then turn into a blackly dark cloud, yes it be true, old craggy faced Paul Hogan has the gift of comedy. True enough the doses of sentiment are at times like a treacle itch to be scratched, but is that a bad thing? Watching a street wise criminal turning his less than honourable skills into a thing of goodness?

The film has many visual gags to go with the ream of religious ones that flow within the piece, be it Hogan attempting to fly or a quiet word about Elvis, Almost An Angel delights if one accepts the nature of the beast. Linda Kozlowski again teams up with Hogan (after the earlier Crocodile Dundee pairing), here she has very little to do but she slots in very nicely, even if a pre-end credits sequence does her and everyone else no favours at all. The best actor on show is the criminally undervalued Elias Koteas, playing the wheelchair bound Steve Garner, he exudes a believability factor that many modern day actors can learn from, where, the ability to act with just your face is high art if it's done correctly. Check out both the first and last scenes that Koteas shares with Hogan, great stuff that seems to have been forgotten due to the disdain shown for this particular film.

I rate it 7/10 because it hits my spot when I need a pick me up, perhaps that is too high in this age where comedy is the hardest genre to succeed in? But don't believe the low rating here on this site, it's a delightful little comedy that is far from perfect, but hell! It's a heavenly piece knowingly incorporating the serious side of religious beliefs.