(2011)
Director: George Nolfi
Soundtrack by: Thomas Newman
★★☆☆☆
I'm not really sure how to start with The Adjustment Bureau, or where. It was an okay movie, at best, and had potential to be so much better than it was. Not having read the book by Phillip K. Dick, I can't say for sure if it was how the book intended, and if it was suppose to turn into a romance story of fighting your fate and creating your own destiny, but the sudden romantic impact, in my personal opinion, is what killed it. I was fortunate enough to have watched the blu-ray for it, so the quality of it was still really nice. So at least there was that.
The main problem I had was the sudden interjection of romance into the story. Like, okay, sure. It's cool that she was there in the beginning to help impact his decision to make a better speech when he was down for the count, a speech which yes, did save him. But to suddenly have him so infatuated with a women he met for about five minutes and have him suddenly trying to search for her for three years while claiming he was in love with her, it was a bit much with a dash of incredibly creepy. I'm not sure about you, but if I personally met somebody once or twice and the next time I saw them was after a duration of three years and the other person is going, "Oh my god I took the same bus everyday hoping I'd see you" or "I walked down the park the same way" ect ect., I'd be a little creeped out. It's not remotely normal for somebody to do that, and breaks through the parameters of reality.
Unless you're a stalker or something.
Anyways, I just wasn't sold on the whole idea because of the way it was played out. The movie could have been so much better than it was, and I wish I had something more positive to say. They brought in a lot of interesting concepts that I really wish the script would have touched more on, but they simply brought the ideas to surface and then kind of let them die a moment or so after. They talk about free-will and destinies but there aren't any notions to really show what they mean by it. Some of the characters were contradicting to their description, and as a great example, Terrence Stamp. The moment his character is brought up, everyone talks about how cold he is and how he's a "hammer", but there is nothing in the film to show for any of this. In fact, he does almost basically the opposite of his description.
I was legitimately let down. The ending was incredibly cheesy, and even before it got to that point, it just became humorous to watch it even get to that point. The music was nice, though. It was hard to pay attention to most of it since I was trying to figure out what exactly was going on in Matt Damon's character as to why he was being like this. Then there was also a mention of a backstory to how they were suppose to be together, but the 'plan' was changed several times and therefore pushed them together.
I don't know. I just overall was incredibly let down by a movie that could have been so much greater than it was.
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