The Adjustment Bureau – 5

The ridiculous – no, silly – plot concept, that an “adustment bureau” monitors and controls human fates – by opening doors to a different dimension but having to run on foot to catch a bus – is not saved by a central romance between the normally likeable but here personality-free Matt Damon, who seems to have added the pounds Natalie Portman lost for The Black Swan, and Emily Blunt, who is also deprived of all background surrounding her character (why was she crashing a wedding? why were security men chasing her?). For all I could figure out, Inception may have been just as absurd, but it was so fast-paced you didn’t have time to think about it. Here, there was nothing but time, and stupid hats from 1958.