Chicago – “Predestination” is a time travel game of limited pieces, in which two beings are not who they seem. Twists abound in a story that gets credit for jarring narrative directions, but this adaptation of Robert A. Heinlein’s “All You Zombies” remains limited in its potential, especially as it fails to evolve past its spiritual predecessors “Source Code” and “Looper.”

Rating: 3.0/5.0

The setup begins with an elusive, pulpy menace nicknamed “The Fizzle Bomber,” who has wrought explosive terrorism on America in the 1970s and 80s. Ethan Hawke plays the time-traveling temporal agent assigned to capturing the menace, who can do so by returning to different points in the past.

His assignment restarts at 1970, where he works incognito at a NYC bar, and receives his IMDb-designated name The Barkeep. While tending bar, a loner enters the urban watering hole, and Hawke’s character begins to perk up. The loner goes...