The adjustment bureau

Friday night is the cinema night but in this house we all sit down, watch a film that none of us have seen and have a good time without spending the ridiculous money on the cinema. After scrolling through every film on Sky Cinema we ended up choosing a Matt Damon film in the form of  'The adjustment bureau'. A weird squad who wear trilbies and a book written by a guy with an unfortunate surname. This is kind of like 'The Matrix' in that weird things happen to make you not trust the internet stopping for a moment of you spilling your coffee. Don't trust anything- just like you can change the matrix you can make an adjustment.

This is another totally different role for Matt Damon and as someone who was at first very sceptical over Damon, believing that he could only play action film characters but now, having seen more of his films and seen him take on different roles, attempt to push through being young and sort of attractive into being older and more established I am becoming a huge fan of him. For fans of Captain America 'Falcon' is in this film and he is worth watching. Anthony Mackie (Million Dollar baby, The Hurt Locker) playing Harry Mitchell who is not an angel but lives longer than a normal man is completely different from any role I have ever seen him in before. Passive and at times faltering a little but always calm. The character manages to end the film a lot better than the way that he started it.

Emily Blunt has chosen her parts carefully and not just accepted anything thrown her way. This time taking on the character or Elise, a dancer who David Norris (Damon) meets in the men's bathroom and then again on a bus before being told by the adjustment bureau that he can never see her again only to constantly defy them and run from them to be with her. She suffers more emotional hurt from him at the hands of the bureau than ever before but makes the right decision in the end. The balance of emotion and control is perfect and we all want to slap Norris for leaving her in a hospital. I won't say that she carries the film but she carries half the film and Matt Damon carries the other half of the film. Together they make the film a very successful film.

One final shout out to Terrence Howard. Wearing that hat makes him threatening and his looks and voice make him perfect for the role. This is a man who is mostly always in control of himself no matter what part he plays. This film is a calm one in the sense of Damon not doing a 'Jason Bourne' on it. More like 'Now you see me' in terms of the feel of it which was exactly what we were after.