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“What if I could put him in front of you?” we hear the familiar voice of Ethan Hawke intone at the beginning of the new international trailer for “Predestination.” “The man who ruined your life. Would you kill him?” It’s a nice, eerie opening to the new minute-and-thirty second spot for the sci-fi actioner, although the distracting and disturbing image of a bald, eyebrow-less, surgically-butchered Hawke within the first fifteen seconds is something I’m sure we all wish we could unsee forever.
Denis Murphy- My first venture into the world of time travel wasn’t with a movie, game or book. No, instead it really happened to me. Well, not really, but to my young mind I thought I actually did time travel. I’m probably going to regret even telling this, but hey, I’d like to think you’re all pretty close to me by this point, so f*ck it. I was around 4 or 5. My three older brothers at the time somehow convinced me that they could send me through time, so I thought, sure, why not, right?
Pretty good flick but I have a feeling most people with find some of the subject matter difficult.
It’s a movie about time travel with a witty and intriguing story. What’s nice is that the story can have it’s mystery element feel so dense. The movie can quite play on the viewers anticipation. The story really can match the complexity and mind bending aspects of any great time travel mystery movie.
The weakness in this movie is that it takes too much time in developing the character Jane in the first act, On the other hand, the movie itself is only a little bit longer than ninety minutes, thus we see the character John feels only like the shadow of Jane as he is only seen mostly narrating Jane’s part of the character’s life, whereas John should have a more significant screen time as the younger temporal agent.
Directing duo Michael and Peter Spierig once again work with Ethan Hawke to cast an unconventional light on a well worn genre. Whereas the Spierig brother’s previous film Daybreakers took the vampire movie into a unique direction and setting, Predestination is a time traveling film that eschews the all-out-action of Terminator and the talky, ponderous grain of Primer. The result is a film that lands in a comfortable place between an action film with time traveling components and a time traveling film that’s more a puzzle than it is a movie. The originality of Predestination’s approach to time travel is even more noteworthy when considering the fact that the film is an adaptation of science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein’s short story “—All You Zombies—” which was first published in 1959.
I'd have to watch it to understand it. This was too strange to understand the trailer.