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A seasoned temporal agent, portrayed by Ethan Hawke, is tasked with a dangerous mission to stop a criminal’s destructive plans. The agent pursues the suspect through time, facing increasingly complex paradoxes and challenges as they race to prevent a catastrophic attack with devastating consequences. The pursuit tests the agent's resolve and understanding of time itself.

A seasoned temporal agent, portrayed by Ethan Hawke, is tasked with a dangerous mission to stop a criminal’s destructive plans. The agent pursues the suspect through time, facing increasingly complex paradoxes and challenges as they race to prevent a catastrophic attack with devastating consequences. The pursuit tests the agent's resolve and understanding of time itself.

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Predestination does not have end credit scenes. You can leave when the credits roll.

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Ratings and Reviews for Predestination

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Metacritic

69

Metascore

7.6

User Score

Rotten Tomatoes
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84%

TOMATOMETER

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75%

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IMDb

7.0 /10

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TMDB

74

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Letterboxd

3.6

From 2.1K fan ratings

Movie Insider

3.76/5

From 33 fan ratings

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Awards & Nominations for Predestination

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4th AACTA Awards 2015

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Best Film

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Best Direction

Peter Spierig
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Best Adapted Screenplay

Sarah Snook
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Best Lead Actress

Sarah Snook
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Best Cinematography

Win

Best Editing

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Best Original Music Score

Win

Best Production Design

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Best Costume Design

Full Plot Summary and Ending Explained for Predestination

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In March 1975, an agent finds himself embroiled in a gunfight while attempting to thwart a bombing in a crowded public building in New York City. The situation escalates, leading to a powerful explosion that leaves him with severe burns. Just as fate would have it, someone unseen intervenes and helps him wield a time-travel device, allowing him to retreat to his employer’s facility in 1992. Unfortunately, his mission is deemed a failure; the elusive “Fizzle Bomber” he confronted remains at large, destined to strike again and ultimately causing the deaths of over eleven thousand individuals.

Following his injuries, the agent undergoes facial reconstruction surgery and suffers from vocal cord damage. Despite his recovery, his superiors, aware of the dangerous implications of prolonged time travel, compel him to retire. His doctor identifies signs of psychosis and depression but chooses to keep this information from him.

As he embarks on his final mission, he adopts the guise of a bartender in 1970 New York City. During his shifts, he engages with a customer who pens true confession articles under the pseudonym “The Unmarried Mother”. Thoroughly intrigued, the agent encourages this reserved individual to share his life story.

This customer, born as Jane in a Cleveland orphanage, was gifted with intelligence and physical strength, yet suffered the pain of being an outcast, always overlooked for adoption. These traits eventually led a man named Robertson to enlist her for SpaceCorp, a space organization that sought young women to be companions for male astronauts. However, during a routine aptitude test, a medical examination unveiled a hidden disqualifying condition. Despite promising to help her, Robertson turned Jane away under false pretenses.

Fast forward to 1963, Jane inadvertently encounters a man who brings her a fleeting sense of happiness, only to leave her deserted. It is during this tumultuous period that Robertson ultimately reveals that SpaceCorp serves as a cover for a clandestine government agency seeking operatives without familial obligations. Unfortunately, Jane’s future is dimmed when she discovers she is pregnant with her lover’s child. During a Caesarean section, doctors uncover Jane’s intersex condition, leading to a forced hysterectomy and a series of gender reassignment surgeries.

As tragedy strikes, Jane’s infant is abducted, pushing her to adopt the name John, an identity the agent has already come to know. Carrying a deep resentment towards his former lover, John eventually finds himself in New York City.

When the agent learns John’s full narrative, he extends an unorthodox offer—providing John a chance to avenge his lover, all while promising him the chance to step into the agent’s job. Together, they embark on a time-travel journey back to Cleveland in 1963. There, amidst personal revelations, John unwittingly falls for his younger self, ultimately learning that he has been led into an intricate trap set by the agent.

Departing from protocol, the agent decides to time travel again to March 1975 to confront the Fizzle Bomber once more. During a fierce confrontation, he bears witness to his former self, who suffers from injuries similar to his own, leaving him in a moral dilemma. Surprisingly, Robertson absolves him of consequences, a deviation from the Bureau’s standard procedures.

In a significant twist, the agent returns to 1963, preserving Jane’s baby—conceived from her self-fertilization with John—back to the Cleveland orphanage in 1945. This intricate series of events forms a predestination paradox, linking Jane, John, and the agent all as the same entity.

Upon returning to 1963, the agent persuades John to depart from Jane at the appropriate moment, integrating John into the Temporal Bureau by 1985. Despite the bittersweet end of his mission, the agent grapples with lingering regrets about the Fizzle Bomber, although Robertson acknowledges the bomber’s role in catalyzing the Bureau’s growth.

As the story unfolds, the agent settles back in New York City in 1975, just before the looming attack. He decommissions his time-travel device, only to find it still functional. Robertson had bestowed upon him crucial information regarding the Fizzle Bomber’s whereabouts, leading to a shocking revelation—the bomber is none other than his future self, who justifies his bombings as a means to prevent even greater disasters in alternate timelines. Convinced of his path, the agent resolves not to follow in the bomber’s footsteps and ultimately confronts and eliminates his older self.

In an emotional denouement, John’s surgical scars echo the agent’s, signifying the profound interconnection among Jane, John, the agent, and the Fizzle Bomber. Ultimately, Robertson orchestrated the agent’s very existence, uniting the threads of conception and demise. In a poignant recording intended for John, the agent ponders the potential for change in the future, leaving audiences to muse over the complexities of time, choices, and identity.

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Cars Featured in Predestination

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Buick

1946

Roadmaster

Buick

1946

Roadmaster

Buick

1958

Special

Checker

1968

Marathon

Chevrolet

1972

Camaro

Ford

1942

Heavy Duty

Ford

1962

Thunderbird

Oldsmobile

1938

Eight

Pontiac

1979

Grand Prix

Pontiac

1976

LeMans

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