2011 · sci-fi · thriller · romance
The Adjustment Bureau
Directed by George Nolfi1h 46m2011
A man glimpses the future Fate has planned for him – and chooses to fight for his own destiny. Battling the powerful Adjustment Bureau across, under and through the streets of New York, he risks his destined greatness to be with the only woman he's ever loved.
Our read: The Adjustment Bureau (2011) reads as a neutral, kinetic, inventive sci-fi · thriller · romance entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, kinetic, measured sci-fi / thriller, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, tender.
- brisk
- intense
- tender
- twisty
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