The Adjustment Bureau

David Norris (Matt Damon) is an up-and-coming politician running for the U.S. Senate. His playboy/bad boy lifestyle seems to be catching up with him and it looks like he is going to lose the election. While in the men's room, where he believes he is alone, rehearsing his concession speech he meets a woman (Emily Blunt) who is hiding from security. They are immediately attracted to one another (isn't everyone attracted to people they meet in the men's room). She had been listening to him rehearse his speech from inside one of the stalls and convinces him to be "more real" in his speech which he decides to do. They become interrupted and she goes her way and he goes to make his speech.

They plan to meet. We see a man, Harry Mitchell (Anthony Mackie), sitting in a park bench in New York's Central Park on a sunny day being instructed by another man (Terrance Stamp) to make sure that Norris spills his coffee on himself at a specific time. The man falls asleep and fails at his task allowing Norris to have a "chance" meeting on a bus with the woman (Elise). It becomes a chase scene as Mitchell literally chases the bus on foot for New York block after New York block. Norris arrives at his new job at an investment company early (now with Elise's phone number) and sees the office staff motionless, like frozen in time. He walks in and sees men dressed like stormtroopers using scanning equipment on his boss. Soon Norris is being chased but no matter where he goes he cannot get away. He is captured and taken to a warehouse where he is told about The Adjustment Bureau, A division of the government? Heaven? The department of destiny? They take Elise's number from Norris and he is never to contact her. The movie then turns to a quest for Norris to find this woman that he knows very little about and a journey to figure out what The Adjustment Bureau is and why they are trying to keep e and Elise apart.

The film is action-packed from start to finish. It kept me trying to out-think it and figure it out. Were the members of The Adjustment Bureau angels and "The Chairman" is God? Are they aliens from another planet playing with us like an ant farm? Were they parts of our sub-conscious that control our actions? I came up with several scenarios in my own adjustment bureau which kept me entertained. I liked the film. It was basically a love story / quest film. does he get the girl? Does he find out what The Adjustment Bureau is? I am not gonna tell you but I would "adjust" you see it. It might not be bad to wait for it to come out on DVD so that you can pause it when you have to go to the bathroom...it has so many twists and turns that you don't want to "run" out and miss anything. Sugar Momma and I both liked it. I give it 3 and 1/2 stars. I need to change the star system to something similar to "thumbs up / thumbs down." I can't ever decide what/how to measure the films on an accurate star scale but I do know whether I like a movie or not. Maybe just "like" or "dis"... Any suggestions?