From the Mind of a Mad Man: The Adjustment Bureau Review.......

So before we get started on this review..........we travel back a few years. A close friend of mine and I used to (on birthdays and Christmas) exchange gifts. Always movies.....and always as horrible as we could find. It was hilarious and fun.............but difficult to explain away having Gigli in your movie collection........whatever....that said if we were still doing this I would give him .....The Adjustment Bureau..... so lets review the hell out of this movie today.......

Diving in..... Matt Damon, who has been in films lately like True Grit, Invictus, and also a funny stint on 30 rock has been making mostly smart film choices ...and hes the star in this one. He stars opposite Emily Blunt who is great. In fact their chemistry is perfect. You can see why they fall for each other.........They meet and you actually root for them....ah the love.....the movie is humming right along......then everything else happens....

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Basically here's the premise. God (or the chairman) has a plan for everyone. Now due to the not-so-shocking idea seemingly in every Hollywood disaster movie these days... from WALL-E to War Games to Waterworld (and thats just the W's), human kind has helped speed up the end of the world. So....God employs the bureau.... they secretly guide people of importance on to a life path they choose. Its for the good of us all...For the most part I like the idea...I'm o.k. with this story....Usually leads to some great special effects or something.

The problem is the writers liked the story too...to that point.... and then they must have taken a vacation......then, in my best guess, a 12 year old moron filled in the rest of the script.. Harsh maybe?? Well judge for yourself.....below are some of my problems with the rest of the movie....

1.) Gods bureau apparently dresses in fedoras (more on these later), they hang out in a high rise library and look like they just got off the set of Mad Men.....why? Maybe the costume department went on vacation with the writers as well? I don't know?

2.)The bureau uses basically Ipads or maybe Kindles to track the two lovers....these Ipads look like an advanced version of that snake game!! and its dumb and outdated....I mean I can track my Dominos pizza to my door on my Iphone more efficiently.....just sayin

3.) Water blocks the bureaus ability to see where our main characters are?.... um.... God and these agents of God cant see through water?? ......really?....aren't we as people mostly water??? I guess they should have just hung out in the shower together and been left alone.....

4.) and lastly the bureaus power is in their hats? Why? Don't worry this movie wont tell you....They just have to have them on?....Fedoras and weird visor hats....they hold the power apparently........um....... o.k???

Basically the rest of the movie is about the main two characters fighting to be together against the wishes of the bureau.... then the finish..... the Scooby Doo ending or maybe The Secret of My Success finale...where everyone chases each other.... going through doors, that when opened, whisk you away to different parts of New York.

(Oh I didn't mention this.....ya for some reason wearing your fedora allows you to open doors and go wherever)....this is also never explained why... only thing I can think of is the 12 year old writer just watched Monsters Inc.......and you cant really blame em...Pixar makes such good movies anyone would want to steal plot points......