The Adjustment Bureau - Starring Matt Damon and Emily Blunt
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I saw the trailer for this before True Grit on Saturday and I was quite intrigued. It seems a bit Inception-lite, but I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing.
It's out here and in the US next Friday (March 4th) and I think I'll go and see it.
Thoughts/musings?
It's out here and in the US next Friday (March 4th) and I think I'll go and see it.
Thoughts/musings?
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It looks very good, although I'm not sure where the action will come from to entertain a wider audience. Can't wait for it though. That and Sucker Punch are my top films I'm looking forward to this year. Maybe Captain America but I havent seen a trailer for that yet. If it looks as naff as Thor and Green Lantern than maybe not.
It's based on a Philip K Dick story - Adjustment Team - and I think most film adaptations of his work have turned out pretty good. Often the story is more coherent as a film than it was as a short story (probably the scriptwriters weren't on drugs
The quote on the poster is very misleading tho: "Bourne meets Inception" is way off the mark, as it like neither of those films.
For a sci-fi esque flick it's very low-fi, with what effects it may have far from special, but it wouldn't actually make a bad date film.
Review here.
Still a good film, although I reckon Monsters, Inc. did the chase through the doors sequence better!
John Slattery...was very good.:cool:
Right up to the last 15-20 mins it was a terrific film, mostly due to the great chemistry between Blunt and Damon. But unfortunately it got too frantic in the last reel and the ending was a cop-out.
8.5/10 from me.
The ending we got didn't ruin it for me though.
However I think they marketed it as a sci-fi with a hint of romance, and this could be seen in my screening, where there was around 6 guys and 1 couple. I don't think it was a bad film at all but I do think a lot of those blokes where mislead to how the film was going to be. The Sci-fi was slight and the action was all at the end, which by the other posts in this thread is the point where everyone felt let down.
I saw one advertisement saying it was Bourne meet Inception and the only way Bourne is related to this film is because Matt Damon played him, that is it and it really isn't enough for a comparison they could have said Good Will Hunting meets Inception and it would have been equally as true.
It was a good film (I will be getting it on Blu-ray), but I don't think people should be mislead it is a romance film first and foremost.
The same thing happened with last years 'Monsters', where all the trailers showed action scenes, which turned out to be only about 5 minutes of the film (if that).
Yeah I got caught out by this on that Twilight Sequel (the trailer with the big Werewolf Vampire battle) turns out all the action in the trailer is all the action in the film. I rented the other two twilights to catch up (which were arm chewingly bad) and when I thought well least you are caught up and it will be worth it with the next film, I sat through that film and found out it was equally as bad and all the action happens for a minute or two and then it was over.
Such a foul mood after that one
P.S I just love that with the adjustment bureau you could tell that all the guys were seriously mislead as to how this film was going to be. And the fact that there were not many women in the screening also showed that it might have been misrepresented. I know that my sister doesn't want to see it as it is very sci-fi as she said. I told her it is really a romance film and now she is interested.
Yeah, it was the same in my screening. I knew what i was walking into after reading about the film, but after the film as i was walking out i overheard quite a few displeased comments from some groups of guys. One of them even said that they didn't understand it!:eek:
I loved Monsters, but I'd read quite a bit about it beforehand so knew what to expect.
Same here, it's just a shame that the trailers tried to market it to an audience that it wasn't intended for. My screening was full of obnoxious little shits that were obviously expecting something along the lines of 'District 9'. The same thing happened with 'Buried' where the majority of the audience seemed to be expecting a 'Saw' like horror/thriller.
Little did I know .............................................................................
I realised as it was starting that I hadn't even seen the trailer, so I had little idea of what it was going to be about.
It was good enough, but it was a bit disappointing because Matt Damon's charater was running about all the time irresponsibly like a love-struck teenager instead of a middle-aged responsible politician.
The film was internally inconsistent: the Bureau is supposedly a ruthlessly authoritarian organisation which guides humanity along a vast time-scale by intervening where necessary; but along comes one mediocre rebel and they suddenlty change the rules and let him get away with it anyway. What's the point of the sense of terror and threat if it all disappears? In a way it would have been more satisfying as a film if they had become martyrs, or had their brains scrambled, or avoided it by commiting suicide.
Except for a few bus shelter poster I knew virtually nothing about this, only that the "bourne meets inception" tag was bound to be completely innacurate. Matt Damon & Emily Blunt though? how can that be wrong.
Well it wasn't, it was as right as right can be, it was fun without being flippant, it was thrillinmg without being over serious, and for on-screen chemistry you'll struggle to find a stronger leading pair, i actually thought the ending was just about perfect, anything else (as per those suggested above) would feel shocking for shocking's sake IMHO, sometimes a nice tidy resolution is what you want, especially when it means a couple you're really rooting for get to stay together!
I really enjoyed it but I agree with previous that the tagline Bourne meets is Inception is totally inacurate.Damon and Blunt were a great on screen couple and the ending was right!