The Adjustment Bureau
2011
**½
Director: George Nolfi
Cast: Matt Damon, Emily Blunt, Anthony Mackie, John Slattery, Michael Kelly, Terence Stamp, Donnie Keshawarz, Anthony Ruivivar
On the eve of a failed election campaign, David Norris meets Elise, who changes the course of his life. The agents of the mysterious Adjustment Bureau, however, are adamant that he stays with the original life plan. George Nolfi's directorial debut is a silly but somewhat likeable romantic science fiction thriller which is loosely based on Philip K. Dick's short story Adjustment Team. The script deals with the author's favourite themes - blurred identity, the loss of free will and general paranoia - but in a very family friendly way. The stakes are low and the events on screen are never more than mildly threatening. The conclusion is terribly lame, and the film loses the bigger picture on the way there. The problems of the rest of the universe don't amount to a hill of beans when these two people need to get together.
