"The Adjustment Bureau"

"The Adjustment Bureau" is great for many reasons, all the usual reasons that a great movie is great for. It's got great performances by both leading and supporting actors, Matt Damon, Emily Blunt, Anthony Mackie, Terence Stamp and more. Beautifully lit, well paced shots and action packed brain scrambling in the tradition of "The Matrix" it delivers even though you kind of already know what its about.

It's kind of unfair how genuinely amazing an actor Damon is, and how scarily attractive at the same time. It's a bit unnerving but fun to watch. And Emily Blunt. Wow. I now realize that aside from Benecio Del Toro and Anthony Hopkins, she was one of the only reasons I wanted to see "The Wolfman." You could put a camera on Emily blunt for a full two minutes, not have her say a word and simply through the intense depth and shift of emotion in her eyes, you will have understood and experienced exactly she was feeling. Because she does the opposite of phoning it in. She's there, fully present.

But one of the things I love most about "The Adjustment Bureau" is that it was shot entirely in New York. Everywhere Matt and Emily and Anthony go are place I've been, places I go, places you go if you live in New York. Great places like Union Square Park, The New York Public Library where a great deal of scenes where a great deal of chase in the bureau's network of secret doors is shot, the MOMA and many more. New York is as big a star of the film and any of the cast. I guess it doesn't hurt that Damon's character is a candidate for senate from Brooklyn, my hometown. So they had me at hello.
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