Predestination

Name: Predestination
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Released: January 9, 2015
Duration: 97 min
Rating: 69
Cast: Ethan Hawke, Freya Stafford, Madeleine West, Noah Taylor, Sarah Snook

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Stage 6 Films | Release Date: January 9, 2015 | R

Starring: Ethan Hawke, Freya Stafford, Madeleine West, Noah Taylor, Sarah Snook

Summary: A Temporal Agent (Ethan Hawke) is sent on an intricate series of time-travel journeys designed to prevent future killers from committing their crimes. Now, on his final assignment, the Agent must stop the one criminal that has eluded him throughout time and prevent a devastating attack in which thousands of lives will be lost.

Director: Michael Spierig and Peter Spierig

Genre(s): Action, Sci-Fi, Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Rating: R

Runtime: 97 min

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Martin Tsai

Jan 8, 2015

The Spierig brothers have deftly fashioned an unpredictable thrill ride, and the joy is to fit together all its puzzle pieces. Read full review

David Edelstein

Jan 12, 2015

If time-travel is your thing, you learn to shrug off inconsistencies. You debate chicken-egg questions over drinks or dope and mull over all the permutations. You graph it. You wish like hell you had a time machine. You savor every discombobulating, ludicrous, thrilling second of Predestination. Read full review

The Telegraph Mike McCahill

Feb 19, 2015

Considering these characters are bounced round like pinballs, it’s amazing Hawke and the hitherto unknown Snook gain the emotional traction they do: even those struggling to keep up can’t fail to notice how these two are burnt, figuratively and literally, by their experiences. Read full review

Bill Goodykoontz

Jan 8, 2015

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. Read full review

Staff [Not Credited]

Jan 9, 2015

This intriguing and well-acted gender-bending story occasionally feels like "The Crying Game" meets "Looper." Read full review

Chuck Bowen

Jan 1, 2015

The film effectively underlines the one undertaking that time-travel fantasies can never truly allow: escape from ourselves. Read full review

The Playlist Drew Taylor

Jan 8, 2015

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. Read full review

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Thegodfatherson

Jan 11, 2015

Predestination is an excellent, well written, masterfully acted and a well paced flick. Ethan Hawke gives an awesome performance. Its a major mind bending trip that is very underrated. A must watch.

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zNeverSleeping

Apr 27, 2020

Talvez a melhor ficção relacionada a viagem no tempo já produzida!

Seu roteiro é perfeito. Aqui se aborda um paradoxo sobre viagem no tempo que quebra mentes. O filme gera uma discussão riquíssima quanto a isso, sendo muito recomendado assistir com amigos por conta disso. O StorytellingTalvez a melhor ficção relacionada a viagem no tempo já produzida!

Seu roteiro é perfeito. Aqui se aborda um paradoxo sobre viagem no tempo que quebra mentes. O filme gera uma discussão riquíssima quanto a isso, sendo muito recomendado assistir com amigos por conta disso. O Storytelling funciona magnificamente bem, te prendendo do inicio ao fim e causando uma intriga sobre como os pontos vão se unir. Quando se assiste pela segunda vez, percebe-se todos os elementos que o diretor põe para deixar a experiencia do plot tão marcante quanto é. Ele também direciona muito bem as informações, fazendo com que cheguemos a uma conclusão que ele quer que pensemos.

O fato do filme todo se basear em um personagem é insano. Os diálogos são um tanto quanto misteriosos, principalmente se é a primeira vez que assiste. Apesar da historia ser bem direta, também há espaço para interpretações. Todo o universo construindo em torno da agencia e da identidade audiovisual da viagem no tempo é bem interessante. O elenco está muito bem escalado, ninguém está fraco. Algumas cenas que exigem um apelo dramático são muito bem encaradas por Sarah Snook, que é meu destaque aqui.

Predestinado vai muito além de um super PlotTwist, sendo uma adaptação belíssima que tem uma construção invejável e que merecia mais atenção.… Expand

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MattBrady99

Apr 20, 2015

It took me a while well actually it took me forever to get around and watch this movie and I'm a bit disappointing...that I didn't watch this sooner.

The story to Predestination is about a order to ensure his law enforcement career for all time, a temporal agent must navigate an intricateIt took me a while well actually it took me forever to get around and watch this movie and I'm a bit disappointing...that I didn't watch this sooner.

The story to Predestination is about a order to ensure his law enforcement career for all time, a temporal agent must navigate an intricate set of time-travel journeys. But his final assignment pits him against the one man who has eluded him in all times - but to protect his future, he will finally have to stop him.

The reason why I didn't get around to seeing this is because I didn't know nothing about it and I have seen different reviews by critics and YouTube Reviewers that didn't make sound anything that interesting so I didn't bother with it. When I was on the plane to New Zealand for a holiday you get those little TV's in front of you that can play TV shows and movies and guest what was playing, yep this movie so I just thought "F**k it" and checked it out since it was a long flight and never again will I put a movie to the side, because Predestination is not just good it's freaking great.

The directors of the movie Michael Spierig and Peter Spierig who did the 2010 film Day Breakers which by the way I thought was okay and in this movie the two directors did a great job telling a story with it's twist and turns and keeping my interest till the end.

Ethan Hawke once again brings a great performance in this movie just like in every movie that he's in and in this one there's no difference.

Sarah Snook to me is a unknown star, I haven't seen her in any other movies just this one and let me tell you that this actress needs to be in more stuff because Sarah Snook did an outstanding performance in this movie that most of the movie she carried it.

Some people may have predicted the ending to the film but I didn't and I thought it was a really good twist, to those who disagree that's fine but remember it could have been a stupid twist like in some movies today that try to have edge to it's twist or it could have have been way to predictable. Just be grateful.

Now for problems and these not a lot but if I have to be nick pick I would say that the movie should have started with Ethan Hawke and Sarah Snook character at the bar talking to each other, because if you have seen the movie you know how the movie starts with the big action but as I said before I would have liked it if it started with Ethan Hawke and Sarah Snook character at the bar.

Besides that the movie overall is worth checking out. The writing was smart, the acting was all good and it may not get the attention that it deserves but it will one day.… Expand

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HaithamB

Feb 6, 2015

Predestination is an intense, interesting and complex movie about time traveling, handled professionally and strong. Sarah Snook shines against Ethan Hawke.

1 of 1 users found this helpful10

DavidV293

Mar 4, 2015

Predestination is an interesting story. Although it plays with your head with some confusing scenes. Like it's a surprise after a surprise. The movie is good but a little too confusing. It's worth a watch but just one time. Definitely worth a wait at Redbox or Netflix.

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Zerpnos

Mar 4, 2017

Daha önce başka bir yerde konusunu gördüğüm fakat izlerken yine "ne oluyor" dediğim bir film. Kafanızı karıştırıyor ve büyük bir paradoks'un içine sokuyor sizi. Başta ki bar sahnesinden sıkılabilirsiniz fakat sonrası gerçekten akıcı bir şekilde geçiyor ve hayret içerisinde izliyorsunuz.Daha önce başka bir yerde konusunu gördüğüm fakat izlerken yine "ne oluyor" dediğim bir film. Kafanızı karıştırıyor ve büyük bir paradoks'un içine sokuyor sizi. Başta ki bar sahnesinden sıkılabilirsiniz fakat sonrası gerçekten akıcı bir şekilde geçiyor ve hayret içerisinde izliyorsunuz.

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donnydark

Jan 17, 2015

When I bought my movie ticket I though I was seeing a Sci-Fi about time travel. The first scene before the credits showed some action in which something resembling a time machine was present. What followed for the next half of the film was a story told to Hawkes at his job as a bartender,When I bought my movie ticket I though I was seeing a Sci-Fi about time travel. The first scene before the credits showed some action in which something resembling a time machine was present. What followed for the next half of the film was a story told to Hawkes at his job as a bartender, going into the life story of one gender confused woman to apparently set up the story. Unfortunately, I did not see that time travel story due to walking out. With so much time devoted to the set up, this movie (or what I saw of it) more closely resembled one of those night time soaps that my ex wife used to enjoy. Thumbs down for the first half, can't comment on the second.… Expand

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