Comments on: Review: Ethan Hawke’s ‘Predestination’ An Overlong, Pretentious & Underwhelming Sci-Fi Thriller

By: Victor

Victor — Mon, 23 May 2016 04:34:32 +0000

very nice review. For me this movie is just a B MOVIE with a poor storyline. Just something bizarre disguised as a sci-fi. All the main questions of the movie are supported by hidden faces, magical surgery and time travels. This movie was custon made to meet the demands of the market, who needs something easy to understand but leleaves a feelin of "wow, very inteligent" to the distracted audience.

By: Daryl Zer0

Daryl Zer0 — Mon, 23 May 2016 04:34:32 +0000

"Looper" was an excuse to have gratuitous violence. With "Predestination", they actually tried to say something. Drew\’s review was boring. Predestination was well directed and superbly acted.

If "Predestination" is only worth 1 star, then Drew\’s crappy review only warrants 1/4 of 1 star. Drew didn\’t learn from Ebert to be interesting.

By: couurtenay

couurtenay — Mon, 23 May 2016 04:34:32 +0000

I completely agree The movie had an interesting concept but overall it failed to explain its self in a realistic manner if you are going to make a movie about something as unrealistic as time travel and a paradox then you have to be smart enough to explain how that unrealistic situation could come into existence in a realistic manner and the movie failed to that we were basically dropped into a plot with no explanation of how one could arrive at such a situation, with a little thinking and theorizing this plot hole could have been avoided let me elaborate this paradox is like the chicken and egg paradox, (just realised was referenced in the movie) which came first? but this paradox can be explained because it has a base, whats the base you ask? Speculation. We can speculate that x is the base and x made the E=egg which then made the C=chicken (X=E=C=E=C…..) because a chicken has to come from an egg in order to be a chicken but an egg does not have to come from a chicken to be an egg which is why it cannot be (X=C=E) because C would not be a chicken all chikens have to come from eggs it would be an XC whatever that is now back to the plot hole the paradox known as jane has no base=X thus is nothing more then just an interesting concept not a brilliantly written paradox. A brilliantly written paradox requires an X=base because that makes an unrealistic situation realistic even if its impossible but isn\’t that whats mind blowing about it so people can say they couldn\’t have thought of that there selves, we live in a universe of logic everything happens for a reason or it just does not exist in our universe there is no reason for the character jane at least one was failed to be thought of, you might as well had add a bunch of other whatever concepts to the movie just to get people going. With that being said take your time to write movies and books because a great movie and book has no plot holes

By: Javin

Javin — Mon, 23 May 2016 04:34:32 +0000

Sadly, I just sat through this thing specifically BECAUSE of all of the "good" reviews. Apparently people just flat aren\’t as smart as they used to be. The movie was utterly predictable from the beginning, and the directors were all but beating you over the head with "foreshadowing". Right off the bat, they tell you, "Well, you won\’t look the same." So we\’re told, "Expect to see previous-him as different actor." Sure enough, we get into the hermaphrodite storyline, right around the time "I\’m my own grandpa" is playing on the radio in the bar (seriously, I\’m not making this up.) My wife and I had figured out that he was both the bomber and the chick/dude sitting at the bar before the ACHINGLY long "backstory" story had finished. All we could do then is sit and watch it play out precisely as we\’d predicted. It was like watching Sixth Sense when you already know the ending, and when the director pulled the "twist" it was already so obvious it was groan worthy. Worst of all, the most interesting part of the plot (HOW was this paradox ever created? Why?) is the elephant in the room that\’s completely ignored. Even at the end you\’re left just going, "Oh… So… Nothing at all has changed?" Which I suppose is the point of the title "Predestination". Horrible movie. I\’m shocked it\’s getting such good reviews.

By: Grant d

Grant d — Mon, 23 May 2016 04:34:32 +0000

\’Instead, it\’s the work of a bunch of filmmakers who seemingly wanted to offer up a WTF-worthy twist ending and tried to reverse engineer a movie from it.\’

You do realise it\’s based on a short-story, the ending of which is accurately portrayed in the film? So I guess you could say they\’ve wrapped a movie around a short story, but they\’d hardly be the first directors to do that would they? Very lazy review and at odds with every review I\’ve had from friends who\’ve seen the film.

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 23 May 2016 04:34:32 +0000

I especially agree with the reverse engineering sort of feel. This movie felt like "twist " masturbation, but the frustrating part is that the clues were so heavy handed. By the end I didn\’t even care any more. Sarah Snook\’s performance was great, but the story was just gimmicky crap.

By: john cobb

john cobb — Mon, 23 May 2016 04:34:32 +0000

The reviewer is apparently a dim-witted fellow eh? This is a really great sci-fi flick see it if you like these types movies; it really excels.

By: McUmar

McUmar — Mon, 23 May 2016 04:34:32 +0000

This movie left me thinking for days,snd still is. Came second on my 2014 movies of the year list,just behind Edge of Tomorrow.
As such, this review is bullocks.

By: Roy J

Roy J — Mon, 23 May 2016 04:34:32 +0000

Indiewire just doesn\’t like the Spierig Brothers. So I wouldn\’t take this review all that seriously. And any critic that uses "pretentious" these days also should only be taken with a grain of salt. Add to the fact that this movie is like an hour and thirty minutes, far from being "overlong", it makes this review one of the worst I\’ve ever read.

By: sven

sven — Mon, 23 May 2016 04:34:32 +0000

Oh I agree, I agree. This was a terrible movie. Glad to see my feelings recognised.

By: jess

jess — Mon, 23 May 2016 04:34:32 +0000

Lazy review, All you, zombies…

By: Christian

Christian — Mon, 23 May 2016 04:34:32 +0000

Absolute bulls*** again from IndieWire. This movie was excellent.