Predestination
2014
*
Director: Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig
Cast: Ethan Hawke, Sarah Snook, Noah Taylor, Madeleine West, Christopher Kirby, Freya Stafford, Elise Jansen, Jim Knobeloch, Bruce Spence, Tyler Coppin
A temporal agent has spent years travelling through time in pursuit of a dangerous terrorist. During his final mission, he encounters a mysterious person with a complex and paradoxical life story. This abysmal science fiction thriller is based on Robert A. Heinlein's 1959 short story All You Zombies. At first, it is unclear why we are watching an endless, dull conversation between these two individuals. As events unfold, it becomes clear these two are all there is to this universe. Identity and gender are mere concepts in this concoction, which delivers increasingly dumb and ridiculous revelations in the second half. Despite all of this, Sarah Snook gives an impressive performance.
