The Adjustment Bureau is one of those it is what it is movies. If you’ve seen the trailer above, you pretty much can figure out what is going to happen. It doesn’t go much deeper than what you see in the trailer. I went into this one with decently high expectations. I like Matt Damon a lot, and Emily Blunt Is not bad to look at for a couple of hours. I always enjoy movies that go into the possibility of there being a plan to this life we live.
The movie got off to a rocky start because it opens with him losing an election for Senate because of his immaturity, and then he meets Blunt in a bathroom where they kiss after talking for about 5 minutes. Rather stupid in my opinion, but that is because that has never happened to me. This may happen to people all the time, but I just don’t hear about it. If it wasn’t for that scene, I might have been a little more into it. I just felt that was a little bit absurd to have them kiss the first time they ever meet, and in a bathroom.
The rest of the movie is about him trying to find her again. The Bureau is supposed to keep them from meeting ever again. I won’t go into why they don’t want them meet to again other than just think of someone that influences you in certain ways good or bad. You will understand once you see the movie. Basically, there is a plan to this life is what the movie entails, and the Adjustment Bureau is there to keep everything on track. They carry around little books in their hands that can help them determine the decisions that a human is going to make. If they want them to decide one way, they can influence that decision. They can cause you to misplace your keys, so you might miss someone they don’t want you to see at a certain time. It’s the little things in life that slow you down that they may have their hand in.
My main problem with the movie is that they had an opportunity to go deep into this subject, but they kind of skated around it. They spoke of the “Chairman”, but didn’t really go into what or who he/she is. I guess they wanted to the audience to interpret that the way they want to interpret it. The books that they carry around showed all kinds of symbols and things like the audience was supposed to be able to understand what they meant. They would just glance at the book, and get concerned about the coming events. There were a lot of unexplained things including why they felt that Matt Damon’s character was so important to go through all the trouble that they go through to keep him on plan. They do a little, but not enough to appease me.
Overall, I gave it 3 M&Ms out of 5, which means it is worth seeing. It is a movie that ends up being about chance, and whether or not we are in control of our own lives. The love story is forced, but Damon and Blunt do a good job of trying to save it. Most of us like the idea of life having a plan, so that part of it is fun to watch unravel even if it doesn’t answer every question we may want answered in the end.
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