Adapted from Adjustment Team by Philip K. Dick, the concept was a brilliant one. Especially when we first got introduced to these "higher powered beings" in the first bus ride. Director George Nolfi crafted the movie well as he developed the story with great pacing, a few funny moments to keep things lighter, and the chase scenes kept me hooked. But I guess the most important parts were the scenes when Matt Damon and Emily Blunt were falling for each other. They had to be believable because their love had to carry the movie, and Nolfi gave us that.
Damon and Blunt, too, had brilliant chemistry together. Their characters were believable and that really helped in the storytelling. Other cast members included Anthony Mackie, John Slattery and Terence Stamp, who carried their roles just as well.
However, and since I haven't read the short story and I don't know how well written it was, there were too many loopholes here. Did Nolfi halted himself from telling a better story or was it written this way? Why did Damon's character stopped asking questions and just listen to whatever he's been told? When he first got caught I thought he would ask a lot of questions but he just stopped at why he couldn't be together with Blunt's character. And so after the movie, I still didn't know who the adjustment bureau are.
And they said they've been around for centuries, I just found it a little funny that they still had so much difficulty making things go their way after centuries of practice. With their powers to "adjust", I'm surprised they haven't evolved their powers into flight yet. And to have water as their Kryptonite (and it's another wonder how M. Night Shyamalan's Signs got so much hate for this fact but not this movie); again, after centuries and centuries, they haven't found a way around that yet?
Nevertheless, a great concept for a story, and an even better idea to make it a love story; it just didn't live up to its full potential.
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