The trailer for Universal’s former summer tentpole, “The Adjustment Bureau,” has arrived and it looks like it may not appeal to the geek crowd that initially championed it.
Starring a solid cast that includes Matt Damon, Emily Blunt, Anthony Mackie, John Slattery, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Michael Kelly and Terence Stamp the film, based on a short story by Philip K. Dick, tells the story of a politician and a ballerina who are caught up in a game of cat-and-mouse when they discover that the world they know is not quite what it seems, and is controlled by a mysterious group who pull the strings behind the scenes.
Wait a minute, didn’t we see this episode of “Lost” already?
The trailer starts off with a standard girl-meets-boy romance featuring some effortlessly charming work by both Damon and Blunt, but things get weird once Stamp wanders into their bedroom and Slattery announces (while still dressed in his “Mad Men” garb) that his cronies “monitor the entire world” and that free will is pretty much an illusion. Heavy stuff, but again, it hearkens back to a certain ABC series that will have its series finale very soon.
We have to admit, we’re a little disappointed in our first look at the film and hope the finished result has a bit more depth and complexity to it. And can we now call a moratorium on using John Murphy’s “Sunshine” score as the go-to music cue to create grand melodrama? Okay, thanks.
“The Adjustment Bureau” opens on September 17, 2010.