2 stars**
I so wanted this to be a great movie; the premise, while not new, gives The Adjustment Bureau a fresh appeal among the films at screens recently. Unfortunately, it took too long to tell the audience what is was all about and the twist so lame as to be embarrassing to get the movie to the nice ending it didn’t need.
So what’s it all about?
Do we control our destiny, or do unseen forces manipulate us? Matt Damon stars in the thriller The Adjustment Bureau as a man who glimpses the future Fate has planned for him and realizes he wants something else. To get it, he must pursue the only woman he’s ever loved across, under and through the streets of modern-day New York. On the brink of winning a seat in the U.S. Senate, ambitious politician David Norris (Damon) meets beautiful contemporary ballet dancer Elise Sellas (Emily Blunt)-a woman like none he’s ever known. But just as he realizes he’s falling for her, mysterious men conspire to keep the two apart. David learns he is up against the agents of Fate itself-the men of The Adjustment Bureau-who will do everything in their considerable power to prevent David and Elise from being together. In the face of overwhelming odds, he must either let her go and accept a predetermined path.
George Nolfi, the screenplay writer, must have been given a bland ending request to move the characters from the start via very little character arc, through to the end of this movie.
Emily Blunt, while excellent, maybe could have received a larger role to bring this movie to life. They protagonists could have ‘adjusted’ her more to bring fun or some interest into a movie that lacked speed, interest or impulse. Matt Demon played his usual character with the regular quality we know from a number of his movies. It’s just a shame the chairman’s team couldn’t find more to occupy their lives with.
I don’t believe we managed to see the chairman, but I may have shut my eyes once or twice as the movie acted closer to a child’s sleep maker.
It may just be me as most reviews have suggested it’s a good movie. Perhaps I’ll need to watch it again after an energy drink to see if it moves along better.
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