"Stretching Suspension"

Rating: 6/10 (16 February 2015)

The movie starts off pretty well. There is an acceptable introduction of characters, each and every of them. You can easily feel the roles and the motions and feelings coming through. The lines have been written thoughtfully.
However, there are obvious non-matching parts about the story. This movie is showing David Norris in a serious campaign for the senate, when he suddenly meets Elise and falls in love. And this is exactly the very questionable part of the script. As a viewer, you reserve yourself the right to wonder that why and how such an ambitious person could give up his speeches and interviews just to give excuses to the woman of her dreams. It is understandable that George Nolfi meant to picture how mighty love can stand against anything, even desire to walk into the office, yet he might have neglected that there needs to be a tangible balance between these two to uphold the credibility and acceptability of the plot for the watcher.
Moreover, there are parts that Harry or Richardson start talking about David's brother, father, and mother, while there is no extra information and you may keep wondering who they were exactly and why the adjustment bureau should need to worry about them; and this ambiguity is deteriorated once there are occasional references to the family, such as "Your father used to say that!" or "What your brother told you before he overdosed!"
And about acting, it is enough to say that "Matt Damon" is just typical him, as well as Emily Blunt's performance which could have been carried off by any other female actor, which both are, to be fair, mainly a script problem for being too worried about keeping two totally different lines together.
All in all, you may watch The Adjustment Bureau if you only mean to spend time watching a movie, regardless of story details, as it has scenes to take you along.