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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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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. Feb 13, 2018 | Full Review…
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.
Karl Quinn
One of Ethan Hawke's strengths as an actor is his willingness to jump between arthouse fare and B-movie genre fodder. Feb 20, 2015 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
One of Ethan Hawke's strengths as an actor is his willingness to jump between arthouse fare and B-movie genre fodder.
Wendy Ide
Like all time-travel stories, this inevitably trips on its own causal illogic - but not before it's offered you a taste of something genuinely rich and strange, and probably toxic. Feb 19, 2015 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Like all time-travel stories, this inevitably trips on its own causal illogic - but not before it's offered you a taste of something genuinely rich and strange, and probably toxic.
Peter Bradshaw
The most interesting time-travel movie since Primer. Feb 19, 2015 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
The most interesting time-travel movie since Primer.
Adam Woodward
Predestination's pace is too slack, and the brothers are so painfully tentative as storytellers that the easily guessed big twist gets three separate reveals. Jan 13, 2015 | Rating: C+ | Full Review…
Predestination's pace is too slack, and the brothers are so painfully tentative as storytellers that the easily guessed big twist gets three separate reveals.
Kyle Anderson
A messy but affecting parable about fate, gender, and identity. And time, which combines the three. Jan 12, 2015 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
A messy but affecting parable about fate, gender, and identity. And time, which combines the three.
Peter Keough
...a notably imaginative film noir that craftily elevates the genre into an alluring confection. Dark, moody and visibly challenging, Predestination gleefully plots and twists its way into a hearty submission of inspired Science Fiction contemplation. Nov 9, 2018 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
...a notably imaginative film noir that craftily elevates the genre into an alluring confection. Dark, moody and visibly challenging, Predestination gleefully plots and twists its way into a hearty submission of inspired Science Fiction contemplation.
Frank Ochieng
In a way, Snook is the heart of Predestination... and by the time the film ends, you'll realize it is a strong and beautiful one. Oct 10, 2018 | Full Review…
In a way, Snook is the heart of Predestination... and by the time the film ends, you'll realize it is a strong and beautiful one.
Nguyen Le
Very smart writing and editing, and a rare film to get time travel right. Aug 21, 2018 | Full Review…
Very smart writing and editing, and a rare film to get time travel right.
Deirdre Crimmins
For a faithful adaptation of a short story, the film is packed with plot twists and narrative surprises and the challenge faced by the Spierig Brothers is obscuring details that would give away the twists without making it obvious. Dec 16, 2017 | Full Review…
For a faithful adaptation of a short story, the film is packed with plot twists and narrative surprises and the challenge faced by the Spierig Brothers is obscuring details that would give away the twists without making it obvious.
Sean Axmaker
This is cerebral sci-fi with a strong emotional undertow, largely thanks to Snook, who gives a heart-tugging performance as the gender-addled person of mystery. Sep 27, 2017 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
This is cerebral sci-fi with a strong emotional undertow, largely thanks to Snook, who gives a heart-tugging performance as the gender-addled person of mystery.
Nick Dent
Trippy sci-fi thriller. Jan 9, 2016 | Rating: A- | Full Review…
Trippy sci-fi thriller.
Dennis Schwartz
Its one of those time travel stories that ignores some of the basic rules of time travel stories (like there can't be two of you in the same place at the same time or all reality goes to shit), all while keeping the wonder, the possibilites, eh, intact. Translation: stop thinking about it and its pretty good, especially performance-wise.
Super Reviewer
A real mind bender of a sci-fi flick. The story is effectively told (which is an achievement because it could have been presented in a much more confusing manner). Although the story is intriguing, it ultimately is illogical and may leave you unsatisfied in the end. The film's nice to look at and done technically well. It's probably worth your time if you're looking for your Ethan Hawke fix.
Predestination is the belief that everything that will happen has already been decided by God/fate and cannot be changed. The film utilizes this idea intelligently. The carefully constructed tale that Jane tells the barkeeper is a fascinating narrative that draws the viewer in for most of the adventure. The Spierig Brothers have fashioned a nifty little drama. "The most incredible story you ever heard" is indeed pretty bizarre. Yet the script thinks it's smarter than it really is. A turn of events in the final third undoes an intelligent account until it becomes almost a parody. I wish I could explain it because it makes me laugh just taking about it, but trust me, it's pretty ridiculous. Michael & Peter could have manipulated the source material utilizing any method they saw fit. As the resolution is presented here, it doesn't earn these revelations honestly, but rather in a way that is desperate to shock more than it is trying to tell a coherent tale. True, these time travel sagas never add up upon close scrutiny but this aggressively exploits a gimmick ending. As a result the narrative falls apart to problems that other time travel movies do not. Watch Back to the Future or Looper for the gold standard. fastfilmreviews.com
Not as confusing as I'd feared it to be!! Excellent performances raises its level.
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