Although it’s useful to have particular skills best suited to directing films, there are examples of enough individuals who have had plenty of this film’s title to do it – for better or worse.

One such individual would also happen to be its director Aziz Ansari, the actor and comedian, making his directorial debut.

Someone who spent all his day in cars is Gabriel (Keanu Reeves); he wasn’t a cab driver, or food delivery guy – although he encountered a lot of them, in his capacity as an angel looking out for drivers who texted.

He would tap them on the shoulder when they should be paying attention whilst driving, and he would save them having an accident. But as important a job as it was, Gabriel felt unfulfilled and wanted to be more...angelic.

On his job he came across Arj (Ansari), who was driving a lot for various jobs, but getting nowhere fast on a metaphysical level, so much so that he thought about ending his life.

Although it wasn’t part of his job remit, he decided to intervene, and make his life better. But when he did meddle, allowing Arj to change his job and life with the super rich Jeff (Seth Rogen), the results had an impact on all the lives concerned – especially Gabriel’s.

Ansari’s debut is essentially a twist on the body swap genre à la Freaky Friday, just not a very good one.

It has good intentions, but the script, which he also wrote, is all too on the bland side, tenuously held together by a weak plot.

It’s also lacking humour, which isn’t a great reflection considering his day job, and oddly focuses on a subplot involving a character wanting to set up a union at work, which adds nothing to the film at all.

He struggles behind the camera, with both Reeves and Rogen emailing in their performances more than usual, which makes for some painful viewing with two of its stars who could have been replaced with cardboard cut-outs without anyone noticing.

Apparently Ansari had attempted to direct before, but his first feature was allegedly suspended when its star Bill Murray was accused of “inappropriate behaviour”, which was probably fortuitous for us if this is anything to go by.

It’s always disappointing when a comedy fails to deliver, but when you consider the talent Ansari was lucky to cast, it’s clear to see that he didn’t nearly make enough of the good fortune that came his way.