The Adjustment Bureau

Ratings: 6.2/10

Film Class: B

Genre: Romantic Suspense

This movie should never be be marketed as a suspense sci-fi thriller because it's not... it's actually more of a romantic movie and about defying all odds to "create" fate. Politician David Norris met with a ballerina in a men's toilet just before his political speech and fell in love with her at first sight.

The romance was hardhitting and happened a little too fast, but I guess when love comes, it comes. From the trailers, the adjustment bureau is a group of men in suits and hats which ensures everyone acts according to "plan", according to what they are fated to do. If they go off track, it's their business to correct them and lead them back onto their path.

I guess when one dabbles in such intricate and abstract concepts, it's a difficult task to stay reasonable and realistic. This movie seemed to spiral out of epic proportions and things just went a little too far-fetched and "illogically confusing". The inconsistencies just kept piling up and the motives and abilities of the adjustment bureau went from grey to between black and white.

There was almost zero suspense in the movie... since most of the plot was disclosed in the trailer and somehow the adjustment bureau just didn't feel mysterious enough. There were too openly introduced at the start and despite their "powers", they were outsmarted in the end. The idea behind the movie was simple yet made complex by the directing and the story development.

Too much ideology was accumulated and by the time the movie was about to end, it felt like piles and piles of concepts were just thrown in from all over the place. In brief, a very messy film. The simple concept was vague... basically I guess what they're trying to put across is that fate is not pre-determined and lies in our own hands. *spoilers ahead* But looking back at one point of the movie where the adjustment bureau mentioned their fates were already altered before, just puts a thousand inconsistency questionmarks to my head.

Was disappointed with the storyline and the plot development. The only comfort I found was seeing Matt Damon and Emily Blunt together for the first time as a couple in the movie and there were some pretty convincing chemistry between the both of them. While I might not have been able to live without watching this movie, I will definitely live without ever giving this movie a second viewing.