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- 1990
- PG-13
- Buena Vista Pictures
- 1 h 56 m
- 1990
- PG-13
- Buena Vista Pictures
- 1 h 56 m
- 1990
- PG-13
- Buena Vista Pictures
- 1 h 56 m
- 1990
- PG-13
- Buena Vista Pictures
- 1 h 56 m
Mr. Destiny
34
6.6
Top Cast
Metascore
Generally unfavorable
Based on 16 Critic Reviews
34
0% Positive
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
56% Mixed
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
44% Negative
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
Metascore
Generally unfavorable
Based on 16 Critic Reviews
34
0% Positive
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
56% Mixed
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
44% Negative
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
Mr. Destiny wouldn't be all bad if it made some variation on the recipe, but it's too generic and predictable -- and too blandly acted -- to be engaging. The magic's gone. It's like sucking on a Tootsie Pop for two hours and never tasting the fudgy center. [12 Oct 1990, p.G5]
As someone who believes most movies have too much music, I was surprised to find myself noticing how little is in Mr. Destiny. In the quiet, an innocent little fable grows, blossoms and is harvested, to no great moment.
Mr. Destiny is a sedated puppy of a movie - meant to be all warm and cuddly, it just lies there like a furry lump, waiting for an invigorating spark that never comes. You almost feel sorry for the inert thing - it wants so much to be loved, and does so little to earn it. [16 Oct 1990]
Overall, what Mr. Destiny turns out to be is mildly sweet and amusing -- not a wonderful life, but merely an okay one.
There isn't anything here you haven't seen already in It's a Wonderful Life and a thousand other wish-list movies. Writer/director James Orr doesn't even do you the favor of speeding through the unoriginality.
As pleasantly earnest as Jim Belushi tries to be, and as pert as Linda Hamilton is as his plucky wife, their new movie Mr. Destiny is so contrived, pokey and predictable that it becomes a test of viewer patience. [12 Oct 1990, p.E5]
This high-concept update of It’s a Wonderful Life, Mr. Destiny, is pure formula treacle, but James Belushi, playing a schlub who learns what life would have been like had he become a big executive, is at his most immediate and appealing.
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