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Rating: 6/10 (14 October 2015)

The Adjustment Bureau is subject to the disruptive ripple effects when something goes wrong, as in the case of David Norris (Matt Damon), a good guy from the working class with the drive and the charisma to rise, per The Plan, to the White House. One the eve of his election to the Senate, though, a skeleton from his past emerges, quashing his otherwise all-but-certain victory. At his lowest point, with the election returns resoundingly against him, he meets Elise (Emily Blunt) under less that portentous circumstances.
The audience sees as he is practicing his concession speech in the men's washroom, and she's hiding there after getting caught crashing a wedding. They have an immediate attraction, but more, they also have an intense emotional connection. Mr. Mitchell (Anthony Mackie) fails to make David spill his coffee at the appointed time. David catches the bus to his new job instead of missing it, runs into Elise, and gets her phone number. When he arrives at work it is to the disconcerting discovery that the office folk are frozen mid-motion, and, those corporate hat-wearing types are doing something odd to his new business partner. From there on, we are then met with a series of different effects surrounding fate and free will. As a rewatch 09/05/18 The Adjustment Bureau is quite decent enough but not as intriguing and engaging as thought to be.