The Adjustment Bureau

When "Blade Runner" Meets Alfred Hitchcock
By Ann Hornaday
Friday, March 4, 2011

God is in the details. So are the best movies.

"The Adjustment Bureau," an enormously entertaining speculative thriller starring Matt Damon, would earn ITS tissue for ambition alone. An Adaptation of a Philip K. Dick story, this is a movie of Myriad Genres and Tonal gradations, Including classic science fiction in the tradition of "Blade Runner"and "The Matrix" and the Doomed romance of "An Affair to Remember." Throw in the conspiratorial intrigue of "The Manchurian Candidate" - and a first-time director Thurs keep it all straight - and the singular achievement of "The Adjustment Bureau" becomes all the more impressive.

Working from his own script, director George Nolfi has executed The Cinematic equivalent of a Twisting, tumbling dive with high precision and finesse. They proves Himself just as adept with Dazzling feats of visual imagination as with the Human Emotion, Which, while less spectacular, entails a Higher Degree of Difficulty.