7.5
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
Predestination (2014)
Predestination (2014)
Overview
Predestination chronicles the life of a Temporal Agent sent on an intricate series of time-travel journeys designed to prevent future killers from committing their crimes. Now, on his final assignment, the Agent must stop the one criminal that has eluded him throughout time and prevent a devastating attack in which thousands of lives will be lost.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Rating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Center
Political: Center
Diversity: Low
LGBTQ: Positive
Trans: Positive
Viewer Rating
7.5
Overview
Predestination chronicles the life of a Temporal Agent sent on an intricate series of time-travel journeys designed to prevent future killers from committing their crimes. Now, on his final assignment, the Agent must stop the one criminal that has eluded him throughout time and prevent a devastating attack in which thousands of lives will be lost.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Center
Primary
Predestination is a philosophical science fiction film primarily focused on themes of identity, fate, and time travel paradoxes. Its narrative explores a self-contained, cyclical existence rather than promoting or critiquing specific political ideologies or societal structures.
The film features a predominantly traditional cast without explicit racial or gender recasting of roles for diversity purposes. Its narrative explores complex themes of identity and time travel, but does not explicitly critique traditional identities or center DEI themes, even with a character's unique gender journey being a core plot element.
Secondary
The film centers on an intersex protagonist whose forced gender transition is integral to the plot. While the character experiences a tragic and paradoxical life, their unique identity is explored with dignity, complexity, and agency, affirming the worth of their non-normative existence within a complex sci-fi narrative.
Predestination features a central character whose physical sex changes due to a unique time-travel paradox, leading to a profound exploration of identity. This transformation is depicted with dignity and complexity, serving as a crucial plot point rather than a source of ridicule or negative portrayal. The character's journey, though tragic and paradoxical, is treated with respect, highlighting their agency and internal struggles, such as the protagonist's complex arc from Jane to John.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
The film faithfully adapts its source material, which features a character undergoing a gender transition as a central plot point. This is an internal narrative element from the original story, not a change made by the adaptation to a character's established gender.
Predestination is an adaptation of Robert A. Heinlein's short story "—All You Zombies—." The characters' races were not explicitly defined in the source material, and the film's casting of Ethan Hawke and Sarah Snook does not contradict any established canonical or historical racial identity.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
7.4
7.4
Critic Ratings
8.4
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