Predestination

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Predestination

R

Released Jan 9, 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.

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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)

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.

Aug 21, 2018

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Jonathan Romney

Observer (UK)

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.

Rated: 4/5

Feb 22, 2015

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Wendy Ide

Times (UK)

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

Rated: 3/5

Feb 20, 2015

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Brian Eggert

Deep Focus Review

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

Rated: 3/4

Jul 12, 2022

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James Croot

Stuff.co.nz

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.

Rated: 4/5

Mar 15, 2021

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Nathalia Aryani

The MovieMaven

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.

Nov 3, 2020

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Tomas D

What did i just watch and how was my first reacti

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

01/14/25

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Pat M

The end was suggested from the beginning, but there was some intrigue getting there. The writers don't seem to know female anatomy, that women have separate urinary and birth passages, so one minor, distracting plot point about a difficult birth doesn't make sense.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

01/09/25

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Tomaz B

You know what, this movie is damn confusing. I think I get the plot, but I really needed a lot of time to wrap my head around this movie. The ending did not make sense to me, but I think it does now that I had the time to think about it. The whole movie is just a humongous loop. If I understand correctly, the movie is trying to tell us that time can not be overwritten and everything happens as it's meant to? Help, I'm so confused. Anyways, this one felt similar to Christopher Nolan's movies, so if that's your jam, you're gonna enjoy this one.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

01/08/25

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Janice M

Strange movie. Most of the time I didn't know what was happening. I watched all of it hoping it would get better.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

01/04/25

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Brandon J

Twisted & mind-bending examination of perspective, morality, and free-will.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

01/01/25

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Audience Member

What did I just watch??? Thought I was getting a time travel mystery thriller. Instead got a weird, bizarre, strange tale about a sex change. Made zero sense in the end.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

12/30/24

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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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