The Adjustment Bureau is based on a short story by Phillip K. Dick and stars Matt Damon as David Morris, a Senate candidate for the state of New York who loses but one night meets a young ballerina played by Emily Blunt, they get to know each other but it may turn out to be that destiny has other ideas.
The Adjustment Bureau starts off pretty well with an interesting premise that being that the fate that we choose to make may not be what is planned for us in the grand scheme of things and that sometimes things happen because they are simply meant to and it also has some very nice location work in New York which helps give the feel of authenticity to the film and there is also a good performance by Terence Stamp as one of the senior adjusters, Stamp has always been a long time favourite and not only was it a pleasure to see him in this movie, I also had a bit of a geek out when he first came on screen.
However the film has a big weakness in the casting of Damon, quite frankly he has very little chemistry with Blunt and the character is meant to be this young hot shot when Damon himself is nearly 40 in real life, the film also flip flops around with the rules regarding the adjusters which like in Source Code is a little annoying but unlike Source Code didn't get on my nerves.
All in all, the film was okay, nothing great but nothing that terrible either, 2 out of 5.
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