Luck (2022) Review

Sam believes she has just the worst bad luck for her whole life and on finding a lucky penny that was about to change, until she put it down for a few seconds which sees her find a totally different world of good and bad luck being developed.

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Sam was an orphan who believed that her bad luck was the reason she never found her forever family, as soon as she turns 18 she is given her own place and enters the adult world. Still feeling hat her misfortune is just not fair and going to hold her back she puts focus on her young friend Hazel who is going through the same process she did as a child. Hazel is hoping that she will get adopted soon. One night when Sam meets a black cat and shares a panini with him she finds a penny which seems to be lucky and she wants to pass it onto Hazel in hope it will help her get adopted.

Losing the penny by flushing it down the toilet makes Sam extremely sad and coming across the cat named Bob again she then finds out that he can actually talk! Following him through a portal to the Land of Luck where leprechauns create good luck for people on earth. Bob and Sam then make a deal to find another lucky penny which will work well for both of them.

Gerry a leprechaun is actually willing to help them throughout the time in the Land of the Luck, although he doesn’t fully understand how the penny was lost on Earth. Somehow he believes that Sam was just a tall leprechaun and not a human from Earth, which is a part that was a little bit difficult to get your head around.

In the Land of Luck we find out that a dragon is control of everything and has the power to banish people to the bad luck area which is underneath. This is when the film goes a little bit different really as the opening is quite frankly rather sad given everything that Sam had went through. It was still decent enough when it reached the point of the main messages being that really you create your own luck in life and that works for both good and bad parts of it.

This isn’t a bad effort though from Apple TV+ in an original feature and I think it will have different parts that all ages will enjoy. Not fully sure about the Scottish accent for Bob the Cat by Simon Pegg which then morphs into an English accent which was a little bit strange I guess. As well as the messages about good and bad luck, it also has a very female power characters and quite frankly nearly everyone in charge is a female. I certainly did enjoy Jane Fonda and Whoopi Goldberg being part of the voice team, which I had no idea about before watching the film.