Predestination (The Spierig Brothers, 2014)

An odd hybrid emerges from the initial arrangement where Ethan Hawke, now well into his second career as a full-time player in left-of-centre science fiction B-films, is a temporal agent who hops into the past to stop a Unabomber type in '70s New York. So far, so Minority Report, Looper et al. But then it turns into a half-hour life story of another character's struggle with acceptance of being transgender, until getting back to the fray with a succession of loops upon loops until even the hardiest time-travel aficionados are liable to suffer motion sickness. It does become somewhat annoying in its desire to confound expectation as a result, but you do have to admire the Spierigs for still managing to create a consistent order of events in the chaos. The budget on Post-its, thread and drawing pins on boards in their workroom, needed to work it all out, must have taken up half the film's budget.

5/10