Awful, even offensive.

Rating: 1/10 (17 November 2012)

This movie is a pseudo-philosophical take on the question of whether or not god really has planned everything or whether we have (or should have) free will.
Spoilers...
Answers: yes he does, and no we shouldn't. Unless we're in love. Then it's OK. Cos this is Hollywood.
I'm not even going to bother critiquing the plot. It's completely transparent from the first five minutes - from the premise even.
Insultingly, the 'adjustment bureau' (read: angels) gave humans free will once or twice in history, but we 'chose the dark ages' (sure, that period defined by fundamentalist Christianity) and the holocaust. But when they planned everything for us, we ended up with the enlightenment (and, incidentally, the humanist movement and evolutionary theory). Go figure!
But when the main protagonists actually do decide to defy the plan and make their own choices, God just re-writes it so that they can be together. How kind of him. What the heck is AIDS all about then?
Incidentally, half a line (I'm not kidding) is given over to the whole 'if-god-plans-this,-why-is-the-world-such-a-mess' thing. The answer? "We (the angels) only see part of the plan". Oh. My. Word. And people are telling me this film is "brave" and "intelligent"? Give me a break.
Actually, this film was pretty offensive.
And a lot of the acting is really hammy. And my dancer friend says the dancing is pants.
I wish I could give it minus stars.