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Rating: 5/10 (25 June 2011)

The Adjustment Bureau
The best thing about a secret agency controlling the destiny of humans is that it allows us more time to focus on "planking".
However, to the political candidate in this sci-fi feature, freewill is paramount.
Practicing his speech in a washroom, congressman Norris (Matt Damon) is cornered by a strange woman, Elise (Emily Blunt), who insists he be more candid with the electorate.
On her recommendation, Norris finds himself propelled into the senate race.
But when he inadvertently encounters a cluster of suspicious looking characters readjusting his friend's brain, he is made privy to a plan by a clandestine company to keep him and Elise from meeting.
Adapted from a Philip K. Dick story, The Adjustment Bureau offers interesting exposition on the origins of providence; however, its goofy acting and retro costuming are a misstep.
Besides, no one controls humanity's fateexcept for those 3 crones with the spinning wheel. (Yellow Light)