The Adjustment Bureau (George Nolfi, 2011)

Where would Hollywood sci-fi be without Philip K. Dick? Short of quite a few reality-bending puzzlers, at the very least, also including the films like Inception that would not have been conceived without their Dick-adaptation forerunners.
The Adjustment Bureau is another one of the plethora based on one of Dick's short stories, and the fleshing out leaves a thin meal, if still one carrying enough tinkering with perception and causality to keep things rolling. Matt Damon is an aspiring politician this time instead of some super-agent, told by sinister men in hats that his lot is not to be with the woman he has just fallen for through a chance encounter. This of course he refuses to accept, and a great deal of chasage follows, with the temporal agents trying to force him back in line with his destiny. It's far more lightweight than it might suppose, but diverting enough, and refreshingly free of the macho ultraviolence that otherwise comes as standard with the genre.

5/10