Coasts on its lead actors' chemistry

Rating: 6/10 (17 November 2015)

It wasn't until after watching "The Adjustment Bureau" that I learned it's based on a Philip K. Dick story. And you wouldn't know that to look at this movie, seeing as they've wrung all the Dickian paranoia out of it in favor of an overt "love conquers all" angle. But even with the dependable likability of Matt Damon (and the splendid Emily Blunt), as a love story, it gets a bit frustrating. I mean if you're going to have interventionist men in hats slinking around our world through magic doorways, a little menace can only spice things up, right? Do we ever doubt that this appealing coup0le will triumph over the odds? Nah.
6/10