The Adjustment Bureau (2011 George Nolfi & scr)

Oh Ems, will you accept every job offered? And what's with the sci-fi fascination? This film is silly, and almost certainly fails to catch the humour I suspect would have been present in Philip K. Dick's original short story. Then you are in time-jumping Looper, and coming soon is one of those space battle bollocks films Edge of Tomorrow.

She as usual delivers her lines with a mocking aplomb, though unfortunately hasn't decided whether to be English or American. I have to make it clear, Emily Blunt is one of my absolute favourites. She has an effortless natural quality and a mischievous expression that will take her much further, and a willingness to try all sorts of roles.

"Anyone wearing a hat is not to be trusted." I kid you not.

Politician Matt Damon is being guided by non-human guardians presided over by an all-powerful 'Chairman' (cue corny lines like 'you have many names for him') - film doesn't go down the road of suggesting that we are all in the hands of a powerful and manipulative controlling government, but rather adopts a more whimsical stance about Love being the strongest thing in the Universe, which fans of A Matter of Life and Death like me get at once. That leaves the distraction of running through CGI doors and away from Mad Men's John Slattery while being helped by bureau worker/angel Anthony Mackie (The Hurt Locker) and colleague Michael Kelly (Changeling).

I blame first time director Nolfi, who up to this had only script collaborated on another couple of Damon projects including a Bourne and an Ocean's, but I have problems understanding how this was financed at all, and thus ultimately is all the fault of Universal Pictures.

Music by the endlessly productive Thomas Newman and shot in a chilly manner by John Toll.