12/24/2011 (0 of 0 found this helpful)

"The Adjustment Bureau" by Yojimbo

A senatorial candidate meets the woman of his dreams but an enigmatic organisation of men in black keep interfering in his life to keep them apart. The movie poster for this film contained an earnest looking Matt Damon in full Bourne pose running through a surreal cityscape, a clearly premeditated attempt to dupe the male population into thinking that The Adjustment Bureau was going to be another Inception style sci-fi thriller. The opening scenes also show some really nice chemistry between Matt and Emily Blunt and when we first see the Bureau, it seems like it's going to be more of a surreal fantasy in the shape of Eternal Sunshine. But don't be fooled. IT'S A ****ING CHICK FLICK. Far more in the vein of City Of Angels, the plot is just the old "handsome and powerful man wants to give u...

Rating of
2/4 

12/22/2011 (0 of 0 found this helpful)

The Adjustment Bureau Keeps You Guessing

We are all familiar with the common phrase, ‘Everything happens for a reason’. How anyone feels about that statement is always a topic for lively debate. Are we not masters of our own fate? Or is there a greater force at work, behind the scenes, that affects the outcome of our lives? Entire religions have been founded on this simple premise. Regardless of how you feel about this eternal debate, ‘The Adjustment Bureau’ [TAB] offers its own take on this subject.

The script for TAB is taken from a short story titled ‘Adjustment Team’, written by Sci-fi author, Phillip K. Dick. Some of his other works were inspirations for high-profile films, such as ‘Blade Runner’, ‘Total Recall’ and ‘Minority Report’. Writer/Director George Nolfi (‘The Bourne Ultimatum’, ‘Oceans Twelve’) does a masterful...

Rating of
3/4 

09/29/2011 (0 of 0 found this helpful)

The Adjustment Bereau

As far as directorial debuts go, this has to be one of the best efforts. Being a real fan of George Nolfi's writing for a past couple of years (e.g Ocean's Twelve), I really looked forward to this one. Plus, it's based on a short story by science fiction legend Philip K. Dick, The Adjustment Team, another good reason to go watch it.

It starts of plainly enough. Matt Damon's New York senate candidate coincidentally meets Emily Blunt's contemporary dancer on the eve of his defeat speech, and an unexplainable bond begins between the two. However, he soon realises, through a series of accidents, that there are powers at work here to keep the two of them apart, powers he cannot understand.

So in a nutshell, it's a romance wrapped together in a bundle of science fiction and suspence. Quit...

Rating of
4/4