I guess I'll have to change my plan

Rating: 8/10 (1 July 2011)

***SPOILERS*** The movie "The Adjustment Bureau" updates our version of guardian angles in that they guides us through life by supernatural not spiritual means. In the film David Norris, Matt Damon, who's a shoo-in in being elected the next senator of the Epmire State, New York, gets crashed on election day when a photo of himself taken when he was in collage has David mooning the audience after an all night booze and beer drinking party.
Alone in the mens-room at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel trying to get up enough courage to face his very disappointed supporters and the TV crews with his concession speech David finds Elsie Sellers, Emily Blunt, hiding in one of the stalls in an effort to meet and talk to him! Surprised at what's happening to him, finding a girl in the mens-room, David is so impressed with Elise in what she tells him about being himself instead of the phony baloney that his political handlers made him out to be that he gives the speech of his now almost dead political career by being honest for the first time in his now defunct campaign for senator of New York State!
A few days later when David ran into Elsie on a NYC transit bus he mistakenly spilled hot coffee on her dress and offered to pay the laundry bill for it in order to get her both address and phone number. The trouble with all that is that the coffee spill happened 15 minutes after it was supposed to happen,at David's apartment, thus screwing up what fate, or the "Adjustment Bureau", had in store for him! And that was to change not only David's but Elise's life as well and put the "Adjustment Bureau" headed by head man Thomas, Terrance Stamp,into overdrive to correct it!
Based on a 1954 short story by science fiction writer Philip Dick "The Adjustment Bureau" delivers the goods to its audience in how the phrase "Love Conquers all" is as meaningfully now in an age of selfish greed and loose morals as it was some 60 years when it was first published. David was salted to not only to become a state senator but the President of the United States if he just played his cards right in going along with what the men of the "Adjustment Bureau" had planned for him. Instead he was more then willing to throw it all away for the women he loved-Elsie-even though she thought that he was some kind of a nut and really didn't want anything to do with him!
***SPOILERS**** It took a while for David to get Elsie to see things his way which couldn't happen at a more depressing time for him on Elsie's upcoming wedding day at the New York Municipal Courthouse in downtown Manhattan! With the help of "Adjustment Bureau" hat-man, the hat is where the power is, Harry Mitchell, Anthony Mackie, David was able to convince Elsie that he wasn't at all nuts but dead on target with the fantastic stories he was telling her about these strange men in black like individuals who were trying to keep both him and her apart. The end couldn't come soon enough when both David and Elise were about to be lobotomized by Thomas and his fellow adjusters that the "Big Man" or the "Chairman", can you just guess who he is, came to their rescue in changing their futures, and lifetime book reviews, in order to keep them together not, like Thomas planned all along, apart! In the end David who was more then willing to throw away a promising political career for Elise ended up having both because he let his heart not battered and confused brain, that Thomas & Co were manipulating, do the thinking for him!