Film review: Predestination gives food for thought
This film could be described in one phrase: mind-boggling. Based on Robert A. Heinlein's science fiction short story All You Zombies (1959), Predestination is an ambitious attempt to explore the paradoxes and complicated casual loops caused by time travel.
Starring: Ethan Hawke, Sarah Snook
Directors: Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig
Category: IIB
This film could be described in one phrase: mind-boggling. Based on Robert A. Heinlein's science fiction short story All You Zombies (1959), Predestination is an ambitious attempt to explore the paradoxes and complicated casual loops caused by time travel.
Yet, in all its ambition, the movie wasn't able to fill the logical holes it creates, leaving one feeling astonished and baffled.
From the trailer, you might be expecting a simple storyline: good cop versus bad guy, and an examination of the ethics of preventing crime before it happens. This is certainly not the case.
The film begins with a time-travelling agent (Ethan Hawke) returning to New York to prevent a huge bombing attack by a terrorist known as the "Fizzle Bomber". He seemed to have failed painfully before, yet remains, on his final mission, confident of thwarting the crime.