Predestination

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Predestination

Studio: Sony
Directed by the Spierig Brothers

Jan 09, 2015 By Austin Trunick Web Exclusive

In Predestination, the crimes of the past are prevented by the law enforcement officials of the future. Temporal agents are tasked with traveling through time to erase history’s most heinous crimes. One such nameless agent (Ethan Hawke) is assigned to eliminate the fizzle bomber, an anonymous terrorist who killed thousands when he set off a bomb in New York City during the 1970s. With his target evading him time and time again by switching up the date of his deed, the agent – nearing the final years of his usefulness as a crime fighter due to years of time travel-related brain-fry – embarks on an unprecedented plot that could bring an end to the mass murderer for good.

A surprisingly faithful adaptation of a 1958 Robert Heinlein short story, Predestination gets tangled in many of the same logic loops and paradoxes that any piece of time travel fiction – Terminator, Looper, even Back to the Future included – must contend with. Despite a chronological narrative that will make heads spin, the story is compellingly executed, with a particularly strong performance from Sarah Snook. (Saying too much about her role would spoil several of the plot’s sharpest turns.) Predestination is a quality, low-key sci-fi flick that’s bound to fly under a lot of radars, but deserves as much attention as many of the bigger ones with larger marketing budgets. Just be warned: trying too hard to piece together the exact order of events may cause nosebleeds.

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