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Ethan Hawke is a Temporal Agent charged with preventing crimes before they happen by doing his best to be surgical and not cause any disturbances while in the past. He is now getting ready for his last assignment which is to bring down the "Fizzle Bomber".
In the beginning Hawke is tending bar (cover) and a young man comes in and strikes up a conversation. The guy bets Hawke a bottle of whiskey that he can tell him the best, most "wow" story he's ever heard. This he does and it leads into an opportunity (given by Hawke) for the young man to pursue revenge against someone else who ruined his life early on.
Hawke did a fine, believable job and Sarah Snook was excellent at playing herself and playing herself being a man after a sex change. The story starts out rather slow but builds into a very intriguing tale with tons of twists. Not quite 'Inception'-complex but more of an audience friendly mind-warp. Based on a Robert Heinlein story, "All You Zombies", this film gives us a good story and two solid performances.
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I think it may take several more viewings to 'get' most of it, but I sure enjoyed what I saw tonite!
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Tin-eared audiofool, large-scale-Classical music lover, and damned-amateur fotografer.
William Bruce Cameron: "...not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."
...since you didn't respond.
..and a gender bender.
The ultimate time travel paradox.
Heinlein at near his peak of creativity. Same year as "zombies" he published "Stranger in a Strange Land". Between that and "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress", my two favorite RAH novels.
He wrote a number of short stories. Many of them were as creative as "All You Zombies". Best work: fifties & sixties. But some really creative short stories were written in the forties....such as "And He Built a Crooked House". That one, a geometry bender.
Those seventies and eighties novels weren't quite so interesting (or worthy) for Heinlein readers....imho.
-Steve
...I love time travel films, but it took me a while to make sense of this one.
Afterward I still didn't understand the role of the guy in charge of Temporal Travel since he had to know who the Fizzle Bomber was.
As the movie continues the viewers' impression of the main protagonists keep changing. And finally, the impossible becomes inevitable.
Wow!PS: now that I've seen the movie (Fios on demand) I think I'll read the short story. I found a free pdf of it at the link below. It will be interesting to see how much the movie makers deviated from the source material.
Edits: 02/12/15
Looks promising. Where's it playing? I can't find any showtimes near me. zip98087
-Steve
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