Predestination

I couldn't get the taste for it. I like time travel movies, but so far none of them have been able to fully satisfy me. Predestination has an original and unorthodox premise, but unfortunately I didn't find it very appealing or entertaining. In fact, there was hardly any action at all, the suspense was also lacking, the twists and turns were too few for a thriller, and somehow it didn't click as it should have. 55% (2014-12-03)

Excellently directed time travel movie with more twist than a corkscrew. The cast is fairly unknown, Sarah Snook was an ingenious idea. A picture that stays one step in front of you, even if you believe that it isn’t. If possible, don’t try to find anything out about this movie. Don’t even read the summary. What came first? The chicken or the egg? (2015-01-11)

This movie is absolutely wild—in the best way possible. It's the kind of story you'd never see made or funded in America, but thankfully, Australia has a soft spot for the Spierig brothers. This is their third film, and they're definitely on an upward trajectory quality-wise. Predestination follows in the spirit of their last movie, Daybreakers, but it cranks things up with an incredible atmosphere, a standout performance from Ethan Hawke, and an ultimate array of mind-bending time loops. It quickly becomes one of the most insanely intricate time-travel sci-fi films, weaving past and future together to create something that—spoiler alert—Red Dwarf fans would recognize as an "Ouroboros." So yeah, it's definitely not bad. (2014-12-31)

Sitting at the bar with a shorter haircut telling her story, Sarah Snook looks like a young DiCaprio in the 'pre-Titanic' era, and not only does she look it, she gives a similarly fantastic performance. The entire first hour, its narrative, offers one of the most interesting passages the film world has delivered in the last year. Unfortunately, though, when the cards are laid on the table, the only thing left to play with are the temporal paradoxes so beautifully parodied in the Back to the Future trilogy. It's a great shame because a lot of potential was wasted. (2015-01-06)

Here even the word “paradox” falls short… In other time-travel films, time paradoxes are obstacles that the filmmakers try to overcome to no avail, and which fully manifest once the viewer begins to question the logic of the story, but in Predestination, the paradox is the alpha and the omega of the story. The creators carefully build it, almost trying to make it as paradoxical as possible. (2014-11-25)