Both audiences and studios often look at January as a time
of the year that’s a desolate wasteland full of terrible movies, and it certainly
is that to a degree. While the last of the awards hopefuls open wide, there are
going to be a ton of bad movies released over the next few weeks (The
Wedding Ringer anyone?). But the first month of the year can also be
a place where movies get dumped because no one can figure out how the hell to
market them, and in 2015, one title that falls into this category is the latest
from the Australian duo Michael and Peter Spierig
(Daybreakers), the time travel thriller
Predestination.
The Spierig Brothers’ time travel thriller
Predestination hits theaters at the end of this week (we’ll
have a full review to accompany the release). While we hope many of you go see
it, as it’s totally worth a few hours of your life, we think that a lot of
people may sit this one out. After all, January can be a rough month at the
theater, quality wise. Though the film is being marketed as a time-hopping
crime story in the vein of Minority Report and TimeCop,
that’s not what you’re going to see. Deliberately paced, continually shifting
perspectives, and inherently weird, Predestination feels
like a movie that the distributor has no idea how to sell, and as a result
we’re afraid that this will fall into a category of films that, while
excellent, are totally underappreciated. And in that spirit, we’d like to take
the opportunity to explore some of our favorite under-the-radar time travel
movies.
