Predestination 2014 Full Movie

Predestination Full Movie

In March 1975, an agent, while trying to stop a bombing in a public building in New York City, is caught in a gunfight. The bomb detonates causing severe burns to the agent. Someone unseen helps him grasp his time-travel device, which he uses to retreat to his employer’s facility in 1992. His mission is considered a failure because the “Fizzle Bomber”, the unidentified serial-bombing fugitive he confronted, remains uncaptured and would strike again another day, ultimately killing over eleven thousand people.

The Agent’s Last Mission

The agent recovers from his injuries, his face and voice altered by facial reconstruction surgery and vocal cord damage. Citing the dangers of the extensive usage of time travel during his career, his superiors force his imminent retirement. His doctor diagnoses him with symptoms of psychosis and depression but does not disclose this.

John’s Life Story

The agent is sent on his final mission. Working undercover in 1970 New York City as a bartender, he converses with a customer who writes true confession articles under the pen name “The Unmarried Mother”. The reticent customer begins telling his own life story after much prompting.

Born female, the customer grew up as Jane in a Cleveland orphanage. Superior in intellect and physical strength but plain in appearance, Jane suffered as an unloved outcast and was never adopted. These qualities, however, led a man named Robertson to recruit her for SpaceCorp, a space flight organization seeking young women as R&R companions—sex partners—for male astronauts.

The Predestination Paradox

As John completes the narration of his life story, the agent offers him the chance to take revenge on his lover, free of any consequences, in return for John taking over the agent’s job. The agent time travels with the skeptical John to Cleveland in 1963, admitting that he works for Robertson’s secret agency, the Temporal Bureau, which uses time travel to prevent crimes.

Deviating from his mission, the agent illegally time travels to March 1975 to pursue the Fizzle Bomber once more. The Fizzle Bomber beats him in combat, leaving him to witness and help his earlier burned self. The agent expects to be executed, but Robertson excuses him, against the Bureau’s protocols.

The Conclusion

Returning to his mission, the agent takes Jane’s baby, born from her self-fertilization by John, back in time to the Cleveland orphanage in 1945. Thus, Jane, John, and their baby are the same person — a predestination paradox.

The agent returns to 1963 and convinces John to leave Jane at the preordained time, inducting John into the Temporal Bureau in 1985 and completing his mission. Robertson extols the importance of John’s future role at the Bureau as a unique operative with no ties to the past or future. The agent still regrets his failure to stop the Fizzle Bomber, but Robertson credits the Fizzle Bomber for motivating the Bureau’s growth and success.

The agent retires to New York City in 1975 shortly before the March attack. He decommissions his time-travel device as instructed, but the device remains operational. He also finds that Robertson gave him an exact location and time where the Fizzle Bomber will be found. There, he discovers that the Fizzle Bomber is his future self, who claims that his bombings averted greater death tolls in alternate futures. Vowing that he will not become the Bomber, the agent guns down his older self.

John’s surgical scars are shown on the agent’s body, confirming that Jane, John, the agent, and the Fizzle Bomber are all the same person. Robertson knowingly orchestrated this agent’s existence, responsible for both his own conception and death. On a tape recording left for John, the agent contemplates whether the future can be changed.

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