PREDESTINATION
The beginning pre credits portion of the movie sets an intriguing premise, the movie then goes in an altogether unexpected direction for almost half of the story and then loops back onto itself like a "snake eating it's own tail. I want to gush over it more but hesitate to drop any spoilers.
I was glued to this movie from start to finish and will recommend it to all my intelligent friends. I read the original Robert A. Heinlein short story, "All You Zombies", in an early anthology, so I recognized the story in the film right away. At first I was apprehensive because Heinlein is one of my favorite science fiction authors.
As the film unfolded, however, I found that the filmmakers had made their movie compelling by visualizing the story, sticking close to the plot. Even I was surprised by a couple of the plot twists that I'd forgotten. The driving score underneath the dialogue provides a subliminal sense of foreboding. If you're willing to watch a movie about time travel, you're already watching a movie with an impossible plot device, so all other twists should be taken in context.
It is a typical cause-effect-cause inversion loop, raised a few levels and loops. There are no branching timelines or alternate realities. There is no "time paradox," unless you count its inception, which I still haven't figured out solidly. Its well-acted and skillfully laid out so that many of the bigger, more radical plot jumps are easier to buy into. There's a central gender twist that many of the negative reviews are hung up on Still, it's a contrivance that's essential to the plot, but revealed carefully and orderly so you can focus on the characters and how things play out unless you're hyper-sensitive about normalcy.
If you're attentive, as you figure out the first few twists, you'll find the later twists easy to predict.
Predestination
But I still haven't figured out two points: The prime mover of the cycle of events 2. Okay, that's three, but they overlap. There's a song they play in the background to bludgeon you with the obviousness of the reveal, which is just annoyingly stupid.
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You savor every discombobulating, ludicrous, thrilling second of Predestination. Arizona Republic - Bill Goodykoontz Jan 8, Does it all add up?
Maybe, if you follow the letter of narrative law. It's certainly imaginative, with high-minded ideas, but Hawke and Snook are what keep it grounded in truth. This intriguing and well-acted gender-bending story occasionally feels like "The Crying Game" meets "Looper. Slant Magazine - Chuck Bowen Jan 1, The film effectively underlines the one undertaking that time-travel fantasies can never truly allow: The Playlist - Drew Taylor Jan 8, There are so many interesting ideas and concepts that could have been spun from this framework.
Instead, it's the work of a bunch of filmmakers who seemingly wanted to offer up a WTF-worthy twist ending and tried to reverse engineer a movie from it. Thegodfatherson Jan 11, Predestination is an excellent, well written, masterfully acted and a well paced flick.
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Ethan Hawke gives an awesome performance. Its a major mind bending trip that is very underrated. JeffroNC Mar 7, This review contains spoilers , click expand to view. This movie encapsulates narcissism perfectly.
Predestination Reviews - Metacritic
In the form of a mystery sci-fi thriller drama, it brilliantly masks its true intentions. Great suspense, not-so-easy-to-predict plot twists, good if not great acting, and well filmed action sequences make this movie both fun to watch and intellectually stimulating. That is a rare combination indeed. Is the main guy actually shim too? Predestination is a good title because this movie is quite the trip. It's retrospective for the first half and then changes gears into a great sci-fi flick. Michael Spierig later compared Snook's acting ability to that of fellow Australian actress Cate Blanchett.
They also said that they prefer to film in Australia, with its rebates and incentives, but will film in any geographical location.
On 5 February , some images from the film were released, [15] and on 21 July , the first Australian trailer for the film was released. The MIFF promotional material described the film as a "distinctive blend of sci-fi, noir and crime fiction with a Bukowskian streak. The film went on general release in the United Kingdom on 13 February The site's critical consensus states: Variety magazine's review of the film called it an "entrancingly strange time-travel saga" that "succeeds in teasing the brain and touching the heart even when its twists and turns keep multiplying well past the point of narrative sustainability.
In terms of the plot, Quinn states that it is "intriguing" even though it could "unravel at the slightest tug on a thread of loose logic. The lead character was variously described as transgender or intersex in different media articles. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Predestination Theatrical release poster.
Robertson Madeleine West as Mrs. Heinlein Rob Jenkins as Mr.
British Board of Film Classification. Retrieved 8 July Retrieved 23 March Retrieved 5 December Archived from the original on 21 August Retrieved 5 September Retrieved 22 July Retrieved 26 September Melbourne International Film Festival. Archived from the original on 2 August Retrieved 5 August Archived from the original on 10 December Retrieved 9 January The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 8 December Retrieved 30 January Films directed by Michael and Peter Spierig.
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