A brighter "retelling" of Dark City. Based on a short story by Phillip K. Dick titled, "The Adjustment Team."
This film was one of the best I've seen this year. It's very much along the lines of films like The Matrix and Dark City, where fate is controlled by a group of individuals who hide behind the scenes as mysteries cloaked in enigma.
Matt Damon's performance as David Norris was great! Maybe it's just my soft spot for Matt Damon as an actor, who won me over after seeing Good Will Hunting, but I really did enjoy this film for more than I believe I should have. The movie centers around a lonely man, Damon, who by chance runs into Emily Blunt's character who through her feminine wiles and gorgeous good looks, indirectly coerces him into relieving the magnitude of complexities and idiosyncrasies that are involved with campaigning for any candidacy instead of giving his closing speech after losing the race. She leaves him feeling a real awakening inside and for years he rides the same bus and follows the same schedule hoping for a chance to run into her again.
The film's science fictional aspect was, although used plenty of times before, quite excellent in this film due to it's uninterrupted flow to the plot of the romance between the two main characters. The action was delightful and, again, I thoroughly enjoyed seeing Matt Damon and Emily Blunt falling in and fight for love in the midst of all the chaos of escaping the ever-so controlling Adjustment Bureau.
In short, this was the best sci-fi romance I've seen in a long time, and definitely worth the price of a movie ticket.
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