This movie would have needed some adjustment

The Adjustment Bureau (2011)

This movie is about an "agency" that controls the path people take in their life. Kind of like making sure they meet their fate like they are meant to by a pre-determined plan. Well the plan gets mixed up when a man meets a woman by chance and falls in love with her. Then the bureau men are sent after him to correct things back to the original plan, but the man of course doesn't like the idea and tries to fool the plan. That's the story in simplicity, even though there are quite a few other things going on as well, but the core of it is quite simple. Actually so simple I felt a bit offended about the message this movie brings out. Did we really need a movie to tell us that we have a free will to do things the way we want to do them? So the story is quite rubbish, dressed in a fancy sci-fi idea but in reality it just states the obvious like it would be some sort of a big revelation. And even though I kind of liked the idea of a huge conspiracy that controls everything, but the movie just takes it a bit too over the top making it way too silly. The romance in between all the nonsense was quite good though and the chemistry between Matt Damon and Emily Blunt seemed to work very well. Too bad all the other stuff around it was very shaky. It's not a bad movie by any means, it looked quite ok, it kept me somewhat entertained and I liked the basic idea but the way it was told took it to routes it should have left alone. So it has it's moments as a romantic flick, but just don't expect any intelligent sci-fi thriller of it.
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