C+ maybe B-

Rating: 6/10 (26 November 2011)

I really really wanted to like this. I rented the DVD, lit the fireplace, cozied up to the wife on the sofa and popped the disc in. Being a fan of Philip K. Dick I was expecting to be blown away or at least have my mind bent for a while. That was my biggest mistake.
What I got was nothing really mind bending. Sure it had an interesting plot and some minor buildup but the whole movie had a been there done that feel to it. Almost a paint by numbers "Lifetime meets Syfy" movie of the week with a bigger budget. And scenes that should have been thrilling and adventurous were ruined by it's artsy-folksy" soundtrack. I felt no real chemistry between the leads. And it had about the cheesiest ending imaginable. And God did I hate the soundtrack. I think the Chairman missed correcting that mistake too.
Terence Stamp stole the movie with an almost phoned in performance. Of course the few moments he was actually on screen had me glued. A tribute to how talented he is. After all he was General Zod.
I wouldn't say the movie sucked but I did expect a lot more. And I have to say the mostly poor music score really unsuspended my disbelief over and over. And is unsuspended even a word? Who cares. They just could have and should have done so much more.
POSSIBLE SPOILER ALERT!!! What is fate? What is destiny? Can anyone or anything really control it? Was the adjustment bureau a fail-safe device for the grand creator to fix what once went wrong? Dr Beckett... Paging Dr. Beckett! Only in the end to figure out he was right, then wrong, then right after all? And to prove it he just changes the ending. Sadly these concepts were only lightly tip-toed on.
I haven't read the Philip K Dick novella yet so I can't compare the two. But I can't imagine this is quite what PKD imagined when he wrote it.
Well, yeah, that's just like, my opinion, man.