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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Mike S.

@RT54543932 May 7

Slow start. There are better time travel movies.

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Garry A

@heavyg May 5

Think about this one too long and it will mess with your mind. It takes a while to set all the pieces in motion. For a while, I thought it was taking too long and thought about stopping the movie. I'm glad I didn't though. It's worth seeing all the way through.

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Darran L

@Dazzler550 Apr 29

Just awful. Clumsy acting especially the bar scenes. I didn't enjoy the film at all

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MBI M

@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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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