Predestination

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Predestination

R

2015

1h 37m

Sci-Fi

Action

Mystery & Thriller

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A temporal agent (Ethan Hawke) embarks on a final time-traveling assignment to prevent an elusive criminal from launching an attack that kills thousands of people.

Critics Consensus

Fun genre fare with uncommon intelligence, Predestination serves as a better-than-average sci-fi adventure -- and offers a starmaking turn from Sarah Snook.

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Karl Quinn

The Age (Australia)

08/21/2018

This yarn - based on sci-fi legend Robert Heinlein's short story All You Zombies - is never less than intriguing, even if it does threaten to unravel at the slightest tug on a thread of loose logic.

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Jonathan Romney

Observer (UK)

02/22/2015

4/5

The film leaps into a dizzy abyss of temporal paradoxes, made all the dizzier by its transgender premise - a modern Tiresias myth plaited into a Möbius strip.

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Wendy Ide

The Times (UK)

02/20/2015

3/5

One of Ethan Hawke's strengths as an actor is his willingness to jump between arthouse fare and B-movie genre fodder.

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Brian Eggert

Deep Focus Review

07/12/2022

3/4

It’s a fascinating investigation into the major science-fiction theme of time travel and the sometimes mindbending possibilities therein.

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James Croot

The Post NZ

03/15/2021

4/5

This twisting, turning, time-travelling thriller about the ability to change the course of destiny will leave you pondering long after the credits have rolled.

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Nathalia Aryani

The MovieMaven

11/03/2020

Challenges the ultimate impossibility with themes of existence, procreation, choices, destiny, and whether the end justifies the means...a 360-degree head scratcher. And the word "360-degree" will have a new meaning when you realize the full story.

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@MNZGamerX Mar 24

I watched this 2014 movie when it had just come out so that would be slightly more than 10 years ago and found it traumatizing and weird. I forgot the title of this move and somewhat by accident I watched it again in 2026 and it was of course familiar (Oh! I've seen this before but what was it about again sensation) and I was naturally dreading the finish although I couldn't recall the specifics but strangely the movie has become more relevant as time has gone by ... I think some people hate this movie because of current gender controversies and that the film really messes with your head in a truly bad way ... The plot and storyline are just a little too appalling and horrific to contemplate too deeply.

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Sky W

@Skypilot3796 Feb 28

The "twist" is explained a dozen times throughout the movie. It’s so bad

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ERIC S.

@SCHIZO31 Feb 23

Awful moviel!!!!!!!!!

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Joaquin U

@Joaquin1 Feb 21

Entertaining. kinda slow. A little predictable. Not a good choice for a lazy afternoon, more like a movie when you're really in the mood for thinking and reflecting. Time travel is always a fun subject, but this one is more of an intellectual flick than an action-packed one.

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@gennuso Feb 9

Annoying movie .just when it gets good then it's like huh ? then it's a little too confusing/frustrating.. the elements of the movie seem to be about being a hermaphrodite .seems like that's what the movie was actually about other than time travel !!

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Plant P

@Plantpot Jan 17

Jesus fucking christ, who wrote this? Was he on mushrooms? Every single person in this film is ethan hawke! His mum, his dad, his fucking girlfriend, his own fucking kid, the bad guy even! FFS! It's ludicrous! I expected the end credits to list hawke as everyone who worked on it too! Key grip - Ethan hawke DP - Ethan hawke Craft services by Ethan hawke. This film had more twists and turns in it than a plate of spaghetti but is nowhere near as enjoyable. It's shite.

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Synopsis

A temporal agent (Ethan Hawke) embarks on a final time-traveling assignment to prevent an elusive criminal from launching an attack that kills thousands of people.

Director: Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig
Screenwriter: Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig
Distributor: Vertical Entertainment, Stage 6
Production Co: Screen Australia
Rating: R (Nudity|Language|Some Sexuality|Violence)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Action, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: Australian English
Release Date (Theaters): Jan 9, 2015, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Jan 2, 2016
Runtime: 1h 37m

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