The Adjustment Bureau is a group of wonderful people who are in charge of people's lives and many things that occur to them. It looks like chance, coincidence, or like people have free will, but it quite obviously is the Adjustment Bureau. Once again, if you are looking for theological truths, do not look to this movie, anymore than you would look to "Glee" to help you make moral decisions. It just won't end well at all. Well anyways, Matt Damon plays a politician named David Norris. Naturally he loses the election(spoiler!). However, he does meet the lovely Elise Sellas (Emily Blunt). We learn from this movie that you will find the women of your dreams in a men's bathroom. For some reason they are not supposed to be together. David Norris really does not appreciate this though, since he firmly believes in love at first sight. So he eventually finds out about the Adjustment Bureau, but there's a hitch...if he tells anyone he will get his mind erased. Those are just some general plot points. I guess you'll have to see the movie to see if love conquers all...as the cliche goes.
I love Matt Damon with every solitary fiber of my being and I highly support his film career (I however cannot in good conscious support "Happy Feet 2"). He is so talented and can do a variety of genres. Essentially Matt Damon is precisely what a Hollywood leading man should be. Emily Blunt is also good, although I have not seen her in nearly as much, so I do not love her. She is however, much better than Matt Damon's "Hereafter" co-star, Bryce Dallas Howard. Matt Damon and Emily Blunt really have a strange thing going on. It's hard to see any real chemistry between the two because they relationship just happens so fast and is so coincidental. They are separated for three years, but then all of a sudden they see each other again and they apparently are still in love. I wasn't fully convinced about the relationship, but at least the camera didn't spin wildly around them, like in "Transformer: Revenge of the Fallen," trying desperately to create chemistry that is nowhere to be seen. So basically suspend some disbelief, like with most movies and you will enjoy the two leads in "The Adjustment Bureau." Also, I am a fan of Terrence Stamp, and he came along to explain some key information to Matt Damon, just like Frank Langella did for Liam Neeson in "Unknown."
I really enjoyed the music in this film. This might be because it was done by Thomas Newman, Randy Newman's cousin. Talent must run in the family. The music in "The Adjustment Bureau" added to the action and the romance in the film. I appreciate this because if the music is no good, then your movie may actually cause people to vomit in there seats and people just don't pay $10 for that. Anyways the music was sometimes intense, but frequently fast paced. As you may have guessed by now this adds to the uncertainty that Matt Damon's character is feeling, as well as the suspense and such that the audience should kind of be feeling.
The cinematography was good too. I love when movies are filmed in New York. There are just so many options for beautifully composed shots with buildings and other city-like affair. You get a bunch of those including aerial shots, which I also love. Also, there's some charming panning, or tracking, I can't remember which. This usually occurs when characters are running which makes for some blurred backgrounds and other fun things. Finally, the colors were not very bright in the movie, which I enjoyed as well. It's not like the movie was dark and depressing or anything, but it would have been really dumb if it was brightly lit and if the actors and settings were full of color. I would have been expecting Jennifer Aniston or Drew Barrymore to pop out at any moment. I could go on, but I will spare you all, because my memory really isn't that good to explain specific scenes.
I liked the plot of the movie, it's sort of based off of short story, but I had never seen this kind of plot done before. Sometimes things get cheesy, like with this strange computerized map that shows the routes of the people the team is looking out for. There also are some exciting awkward lines and other such things.
Matt Damon was wonderful and Emily Blunt was good in "The Adjustment Bureau." It's not a great movie, but it is highly entertaining, which a good cast and compelling music and cinematography. Overlook some of the slight cheesiness, and you may very well enjoy yourself. However, if you don't like Matt Damon, then don't ever see it, because he is in almost every scene. 2 1/2 stars out of 4...something like that. I got to the movie a little late and was eating during part of it, so I had issues getting into it at first.
-Joseph Sbrilli
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