Thanos Karagioras "The Adjustment Bureau" is a Sci-Fi romance movie in which we watch a man who is a politician and wants to become a Senator getting involved with a beautiful contemporary ballet dancer. After a very strange incident, everything changes for him as he learns about the existence of some people who are responsible for the fate itself and their name is The Adjustment Bureau. They told him about them and they explain what they do and they also tell him not to meet that woman again. After he realizes that he fell in love with this woman he has to fight for her and all the agents of Fate.I liked this movie very much because it has a very interesting plot and a well-written script. In addition to this, I think that the interpretations of Matt Damon who played as David Norris and Emily Blunt who played as Elise Sellas are outstanding and provide to the audience a beautiful romance. The direction which was made by George Nolfi was simply amazing. I also liked the combination of action scenes with romance. At first, this movie it may confuse you due to its mysterious concept but after you understand the plot then you are going to love it.To sum up I have to say that "The Adjustment Bureau" is a very interesting movie with a very new and innovative idea for a plot. I believe that you aren't going to waste your time watching it. I strongly recommend for everyone to see it because I am sure that you are going to have a great time watching it and you are going to enjoy it very much since you are going to be intense for the whole duration of it.

SevenDeadlyThings A short story by Philip K Dick titled "Adjustment Team" (1954) was freely adapted here by Bourne screenwriter George Nolfi who turned it into a glitzy futurist conspiracy thriller. The movie is entertaining and savvy but I found it hard to get past the scene where the two leads enjoy a flirty moment when Blunt plonks Damon's phone into his coffee leaving him smitten as a kitten. Maybe it's me, but if a someone did that to me on a bus in the morning I'm taking them straight to the nearest Apple Store to buy me a new phone. Suffice it to say it's a fun film not to be taken seriously.

jormatuominen You know how it is. When someone tragically dies, you are supposed to think that it was God's will and we do not understand his plans. Or if you like, we can't understand the big picture, but there is a meaning behind all the suffering. In the Adjustment Bureau, the protagonist has the courage to ask if it is morally acceptable to make people suffer against their will, if it is your power not to do so. Shouldn't the plan be better? This is a pretty daring question in a theological context and would easily have led the questioner to lose his life in the past. Some would call it blasphemy even today. The short stories Philip K. Dick wrote back in the 1950's are a bit dated by now but they still inspire the best in American film making just as his novels of the 1960's do. The superior being who adjusts things on the ground to comply to his plans is called the Old Man in the original story, in the film the title is more bureaucratic, so it 's not clear if we are dealing with God, an AI or some other entity. It's your call. Einstein said that God does not play dice. But in the story and the film he certainly does so as his adjustment agents keep on tweaking the odds to keep his plan going. The first time around I didn't really like the film as I was having a hard time deciding if it was a sci-fi or a religious film or simply a romantic comedy with an unusual amount of action. So I decided to give it a second chance and the film began to make much more sense. Besides asking the viewer a lot of very difficult questions the film also incorporates a mighty romance. Normally I do not go for the romantic comedy genre, but Matt Damon and Emily Blunt act the parts in a Casablanca kind of manner. It's hard to define but if you have seen the film you already know what I mean. I never knew Matt Damon could be so intense. The scene where the couple accidentally meet in a men's rest room is absolutely thrilling to watch. As far as adaptations of Philip K. Dicks groundbreaking work go, the Adjustment Bureau has to be one of the most imaginative.

gcsman Science fiction writer Philip K. Dick was born a couple of decades too soon. His output of stories and novels mainly in the 1960's and 70's were ahead of their time, or else too far off on a track of their own, even for the world of SF in his day. But now they're a gold mine for some of our most mind-bending movie and TV plots being made long after his death, often invoking nightmarish alternate worlds of hidden levels behind our apparently normal realities. These include Blade Runner, Minority Report, Paycheck, The Man in the High Castle, and The Adjustment Bureau among others.The Adjustment Bureau is fun to watch and it's built on one simple but powerful idea (SPOILERS!): our individual histories and lives are constantly being monitored and tweaked by an organization (the Bureau) to make sure that they don't disrupt the Plan laid down by the Chairman, i.e. a God who's never on screen. Their operatives are an anonymous bunch of men in black suits and fedoras who can use ordinary doors to go from anywhere to anywhere else. (Interestingly the one thing they can't seem to do, however, is travel through time.) One clever device the movie introduces is the set of notebooks the operatives carry around, which have map pages that change in real time as their assigned targets move around, as if everyone in the world has a tracker.This movie builds on its two main stars Matt Damon and Emily Blunt, who are two of the most attractive, versatile, and bankable actors we've got. For them, this movie is a pay-the-bills kind of role, but they still do good work. Supporting roles by Anthony Mackie, John Slattery, and Terence Stamp are all fine as well. To give the script credit, it openly raises decent philosophical questions about free will and whether anyone, even the Chairman, should change the destinies of two people who will be very happy together. The main thing that I think holds this movie back from being more prominent might just be its budget and its level of ambition. It's generally well executed, but it stays small and at the B-movie level. It's not hard though to imagine a bigger-scale version, because the central idea of Hidden Reality beneath our own and manipulation of lives by shadowy operatives is just too good.One last note -- the storyline reminded me of Isaac Asimov's novel The End of Eternity (from WAY back in 1955, well before Dick was writing). It's essentially the opposite side of the same coin: Asimov's story is built on the idea that lives and histories are 'adjusted' by operatives who can shuttle back and forth in time (but not space). It could make a good movie too.