The Adjustment Bureau (2011)

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	Year of first release: 2011
	Director: George Nolfi
	Actors: Matt Damon (Dogma, Saving Private Ryan), Emily Blunt (Edge of Tomorrow), Michael Kelly, Anthony Mackie (Captain America: The Winter Soldier)
	Country: USA
	Genre: Thriller, SF
	Conditions of visioning: 12.10.2014, Blu-ray, Home cinema
Synopsis: Running for congressman, David Norris (Damon) is defeated, but his meeting with the mysterious Elise (Blunt) effects him deeply, while a group of men seems determined to affect his future.
Review: For some reason I thought this movie was another spy thriller. I was wrong, and in the end only half surprised that the original story (my favorite thing in the movie) is adapted from a novel by Philip K. Dick, paranoid godfather of paranoid Science Fiction. That story is quite classical but placed in a new context (politics) which makes it more attractive. I found refreshing the role of Matt Damon as young politician (instead of another Bourne-like) and Emily Blunt is as lovely as in Edge of Tomorrow (we are likely to see her more and more in the future). About the way the film looks: there are actually similarities with The Matrix in the characters design (hat instead of black glasses), topology (what doors do) and reflexion (about free-will). One could conclude that the Wachowski movie was inspired by The Adustment Team novel (which is dated 1954), but after a quick search it looks to me that none of those elements are present in the original story, making it then more likely that the movie adaptation was inspired by The Matrix. Not a good point for originality once you know that. But ignoring this fact, The Adjustment Bureau is otherwise a nice piece of anticipation thriller like there are not so often (it actually also reminds a lot of Alex Proyas' excellent Dark City).
Rating: 6 /10