sibling filmmakers Peter and Michael Spierig offer a skillful and atmospheric adaptation of Robert A. Heinlein's 1960 short story " - All You Zombies - ," and if it's better in the intimate early stages than in the more grandiose later passages
it's worse than nonsensical-it's boring, overlong, pretentious, and oddly under-styled. Unfortunately, the Ethan Hawke that's easily swayed by underwhelming genre movies is the one that showed up for "Predestination"
it's still a tricksy story well-handled by its directors. It doesn't offer any new twists on the genre, but it is clever enough to leave you satisfied that you don't want the time back