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Peter SpierigCast:
Ethan Hawke, Sarah Snook, Noah Taylor, Christopher Kirby, Olivia Sprague, Cate Wolfe, Carmen Warrington, Christopher Stollery, Rob Jenkins, Jim Knobeloch (more)VOD (2)
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Predestination chronicles the life of a Temporal Agent sent on an intricate series of time-travel journeys designed to ensure the continuation of his law enforcement career for all eternity. Now, on his final assignment, the Agent must pursue the one criminal that has eluded him throughout time. (Sony Pictures Home Entertainment)
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The timing remains on a minimalist plane for an incredibly long time. It plays on dialogues, the power of the gaze, and Sarah Snook's fascinating performance. And given how Ethan Hawke revels in conversations, the rest of the running time logically begins to flag despite its unrelenting tension. Which doesn't matter as much as it might seem – of course, only if the viewer is able to engage in the game the screenplay presents. Many betrayals can be sensed from the opening scene, but the barrage of twists that Michael and Peter Spierig start throwing in towards the end truly takes your breath away. Perhaps the next viewing will reveal if this predestined violin case is really an all-encompassing appetizer that pleasantly unsettles with its blend of unconventional romance, uncompromising sci-fi, and unusual editing – or if it gets tangled up in the constantly escalating series of plot twists.
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Here even the word “paradox” falls short… In other time-travel films, time paradoxes are obstacles that the filmmakers try to overcome to no avail, and which fully manifest once the viewer begins to question the logic of the story, but in Predestination, the paradox is the alpha and the omega of the story. The creators carefully build it, almost trying to make it as paradoxical as possible.
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An irresistibly sexy flick during which I felt extreme anticipation for a carefully concealed and emotional point that would further confirm its cleverness. Instead, however, it becomes an endless loop in which everything possible is overwrought and it thus remains “only” a sexy flick that’s nicely paced and spectacularly shot with an interesting story.
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The bar conversation is so brilliant you forget you're watching a sci-fi about time travel. Then the action starts, and if you have already seen a few films like this, you'll start to get an idea of what the brothers will try to pull on you at the end. I could have been annoyed at them maybe even more, but the fact that they actually keep it pretty low-key the whole time and everything is dealt with in a rather non-violent way with clever dialogues makes me go quite high with my rating in the end.
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This movie is absolutely wild—in the best way possible. It's the kind of story you'd never see made or funded in America, but thankfully, Australia has a soft spot for the Spierig brothers. This is their third film, and they're definitely on an upward trajectory quality-wise. Predestination follows in the spirit of their last movie, Daybreakers, but it cranks things up with an incredible atmosphere, a standout performance from Ethan Hawke, and an ultimate array of mind-bending time loops. It quickly becomes one of the most insanely intricate time-travel sci-fi films, weaving past and future together to create something that—spoiler alert—Red Dwarf fans would recognize as an "Ouroboros." So yeah, it's definitely not bad.
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