The Adjustment Burea (6.5/10)

Something was really strange about this movie, but maybe it was just me. When you watch enough movies you get a kind of 6th sense on how a movie is made. Meaning that when your watching a movie, things seem to fit a certain criteria. To me the "The Adjustment  Bureau" felt painfully obvious that I was watching a movie at times. Acting, editing, dialogue and other things made it seem like they were just making a movie rather than telling a story. Like I said, it could be just me.

So wannabe senator David (Matt Damon) meets Elise (Emily Blunt) one night and a couple of months later they meet again, well that's the problem. Fate has deemed that these two should have met only once and so call in the adjustment bureau. A group of hat wearing goons who have a office in down town NYC. So that's where fate has been hiding all this time, go figure. They tell David that he can never see Elise again because that's not apart of his fate. Well some chance meetings will cause David to rebel against destiny itself. I thought about half way through that it was fate that David and Elise should fall in love and that the bureau was wrong. Well to bad the movie actually addresses this and decides to come up with some cheap gimmick to say why the two actually fall in love. The supporting cast consists of Anthony Mackie, John Slattery and Terrence Stamp who all seem like they could have played their role and each others roles just the same. "The Adjustment Burea" is a fine movie and all, but it's not that great. There are more cons than pros in this movie which is never a good thing (unless your making "Mr Jingles").

6.5/10
Recommendation: I'd watch it if you got time to kill. Unless you REALLY love the actors then it isn't that necessary to rent. I love the cast but they've all done better work else where. I'd recommend "Dark City" if the plot sounds interesting here, that one handles a similar idea masterfully.