If you haven't seen this movie, you might not want to read this post. My cynicism may spoil it for you.
The first time I tried to watch this movie, I fell asleep within ten minutes. It had been something I had wanted to see. I generally want to see All Things Damon, but from the little that I had been able to sample, I wasn't sure if I was going to like it. I told Mike that I didn't really believe that someone mooning someone at a college party would lead to a politician's demise. (Well, he was a Democrat... Maybe it could happen.) I also couln't believe in the Adjustment Bureau. One of the actors played Roger in Mad Men. I kept thinking of that show whenever I saw his face. That is never a good sign. These were characters that were supposed to shape our destiny. They were supposed to be menacing and all powerful. Before I fell asleep, I remember admiring their hats.
So I gave it another try, watched the whole movie, and came to the same conclusion. My biggest problem was the script. I think in this type of movie, where there's a world set up with definite rules with the idea that if these rules are broken, there are severe consequences, that has to pay off in some way or there has to be a really great explanation why that doesn't occur. So in this movie, when the men from the Adjustment Bureau tell Matt Damon that if he tells anyone about them, that they will screw up his brain so that he is a shell of who he ever was, and then Matt Damon goes out and breaks that rule and nothing ever happens, there's not even a sense that anything will happen, something is wrong.
I considered looking up character's names while I was writing this and decided that I never felt invested in any of these characters and I'm not going to pretend I did by calling them by name. There were plenty of chase scenes, which bored me to tears. I turned to my phone and started looking up trivia on IMDB about this movie. That's when I read that they photoshopped Emily Blunt's head on top of a dancer so that the dance scenes would be convincing. It just feels that this movie encapsulates everything that I don't like about most movies today.
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