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The Adjustment Bureau (2011)
Director: George Nolfi
Writers: George Nolfi(screenplay), Philip K. Dick(short story)
Cast: Matt Damon, Emily Blunt, Anthony Mackie
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller, Romance
In the present day, an up and coming political candidate (Matt Damon) runs up against a secret organization with unworldly powers to control the destiny of humans. Despite his attempts to find his true love, a dancer (Emily Blunt) who he had a chance encounter with on a bus...the mysterious force of The Adjustment Bureau keeps the two apart.
Review: Based on a short story by renowned sci fi writer Philip K. Dick called the 'Adjustment Team'. The movie draws from the Matrix with both the look and feel of the men in long trench coats and hats. Their hats are very special as they open doors that connect the city to different places, sometimes miles apart. Think of the common doors that we all use, now image if you had a device that when your turned the door knob counterclockwise would open a corridor to the other side of the city. Pretty neat.
The Adjustment Bureau is a fine, but none too serious film. It alludes to some deeper meaning to our lives suggesting that the happenstances that change our destiny, are not accidents but under the careful guidance of supreme beings, who just happen to look like everyday humans.
I actually liked Matt Damon in this, he was well suited to playing a maverick congressman running for the senate. The scenes that show him on various newscast and talk shows as he campaigned were done well.
As much as I liked Emily Blunt in Edge of Tomorrow (2014), I didn't care for her here. Especially in the first part of the movie where she has a couple of chance encounters with Matt Damon and is suppose to be his soul mate with an instant love connection. To me she leered at him like a cross between a call girl and a stalker. Later in the film I did like her performance.
Not a bad film, not a great film.
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Writers: George Nolfi(screenplay), Philip K. Dick(short story)
Cast: Matt Damon, Emily Blunt, Anthony Mackie
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller, Romance
In the present day, an up and coming political candidate (Matt Damon) runs up against a secret organization with unworldly powers to control the destiny of humans. Despite his attempts to find his true love, a dancer (Emily Blunt) who he had a chance encounter with on a bus...the mysterious force of The Adjustment Bureau keeps the two apart.
Review: Based on a short story by renowned sci fi writer Philip K. Dick called the 'Adjustment Team'. The movie draws from the Matrix with both the look and feel of the men in long trench coats and hats. Their hats are very special as they open doors that connect the city to different places, sometimes miles apart. Think of the common doors that we all use, now image if you had a device that when your turned the door knob counterclockwise would open a corridor to the other side of the city. Pretty neat.
The Adjustment Bureau is a fine, but none too serious film. It alludes to some deeper meaning to our lives suggesting that the happenstances that change our destiny, are not accidents but under the careful guidance of supreme beings, who just happen to look like everyday humans.
I actually liked Matt Damon in this, he was well suited to playing a maverick congressman running for the senate. The scenes that show him on various newscast and talk shows as he campaigned were done well.
As much as I liked Emily Blunt in Edge of Tomorrow (2014), I didn't care for her here. Especially in the first part of the movie where she has a couple of chance encounters with Matt Damon and is suppose to be his soul mate with an instant love connection. To me she leered at him like a cross between a call girl and a stalker. Later in the film I did like her performance.
Not a bad film, not a great film.
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