Looking like a cross between Looper and Timecop, the film stars Hawke, Noah Taylor, and Sarah Snook with the plot based on Robert Heinlein's short story "All You Zombies". Here's the synopsis which can explain things far better than I ever could:
In mid-’70s New York, a man in a fedora slips into an office building’s boiler room, carrying a mysterious briefcase. He uncovers a bomb, and is attacked while struggling to deactivate it. He succeeds — almost. Horribly disfigured, he’s transported to his agency’s headquarters where he receives a new face. He’s a temporal agent, traveling back and forth through time, altering history, and his assignment — thwart the mass murder perpetrated by the so-called “Fizzle Bomber” — continues. New face, new place. Now he’s undercover as a bartender. He falls into conversation with a tough yet androgynous customer. There’s something off about the guy, who offers to enlighten the agent with “the best story you ever heard".
Debuting at SXSW the buzz on this one has not been good, which may explain why Sony is holding off on giving Predestination a release date.
