Dansiella!

I keep forgetting to write about this silly movie I wasted time and money on months ago.

Matt Damon is an ambitious politician who has his whole life laid out for him; read: he is meant to follow “the plan” - a vague and overused concept that is played out throughout the entire film. To follow this so-called plan, all he needs to do is live his life the way the fate dictates (“fate” here is represented by a trove of strange men in coats and hats). Matt Damon meets Emily Blunt by chance and instantly falls in love with her. This, of course, isn’t part of the plan which angers the makers of fate, which leads to a predictably tiring 90+ minutes of awkward gimmicky stuff like magic doors and hats while trying to establish a forced sense of a higher being (they shan’t dare bring God into this, haha). To say this movie’s trailer was misleading is being nice. It tries to be thought provoking- and it’s thought provoking alright. It provoked me to question myself why I keep believing in well-crafted movie trailers. Getting down to the nitty-gritty of this movie is another story as the laughable scenes outweighed the absurd ones. Its denouement is comparable to a cheesy Filipino movie where the climax of the boy-chases-girl story always ends in interrupting a wedding (a friend’s observation, not mine). A true face palm movie at its finest, the Adjustment Bureau is really all about two of today’s most amazing actors thrown into a shitty movie. And with a movie tagline like “your future has been adjusted,” everyone should’ve seen that coming.