Main Characters
David Norris - Matt Damon
Elise Sellas - Emily Blunt
Harry Mitchell - Anthony Mackie
Fate or freedom of choice, which dictates what happens in our lives? Its an age old question, and while personally I believe we have complete freedom of choice, The Adjustment Bureau explores the idea that we all have a plan predetermined for us, and that bad things happen if we go 'off plan'.
David Norris (Damon) is a young man running for a seat in the U.S. Senate, who meets a beautiful ballerina (Blunt) and falls, hard. Soon after, Damon stumbles upon something he's not supposed to see when Harry Mitchell (Mackie) who works for the Bureau falls asleep on the job, literally.
The Bureau constantly makes 'adjustments' in people's lives to make sure that they stay on track. Small, simple things like spilling coffee on your shirt, missing a phone call, meeting someone who inspires you to behave outside how you normally would. All incidents carefully coreographed by The Bureau, but they can go only so far. If the changes they make are too big, they cause 'ripples' and there can only be so many ripples in any given case. Once they reach their ripple limit, things have gone effectively out of their control.
Rather than eliminate him, the Bureau decides to tell Norris exactly who they are, and what they do, and the consequences if he ever reveals their existence to anyone, or strays from the plan that has been laid out for him. Norris decides he doesn't like the plan that the higher powers have created for him, and the fight begins. Harry even helps Norris along to way to getting what he wants, instead of being forced to live out the plan that's been set in motion for him.
I couldn't help but get the feeling that a lot of guys who went to see this movie may have felt like they'd been duped into seeing a romance when they expected an action movie, or even a psychological thriller. Not that I'm complaining mind you, I thoroughly enjoyed The Adjustment Bureau. Damon and Blunt are two of my favourite actors in Hollywood, and the chemistry was really obvious.
Again, this movie was not strictly what I was expecting from the trailers, but that doesn't bother me at all. I thought it was great, and I'm looking forward to seeing what kind of special features the DVD release is going to have to offer.
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