10 Sci-Fi Movies That Had No Right To Be This Good

10. Predestination

To this day, Predestination flies under the radar of most fans, who are sadly unaware of the stunning quality of this 2014 sleeper hit.

Without hyperbole, quite literally everything about Predestination is an example of sci-fi filmmaking at its finest. The performances of Ethan Hawke and Sarah Snook (in a superb breakout role) are otherworldly, while the story possesses the jaw-dropping twists and turns of pictures like Inception or The Prestige, arguably even surpassing them.

The film is also a hauntingly introspective exploration of the notion of identity, featuring a gender reassignment as a core concept of the storyline. Such a layered character set against a mind-boggling sci-fi backdrop means that Predestination provides the rare combination of a movie that is grounded in the absolutely unbelievable, while invoking internal debate of what is inescapably real.

Predestination did not receive much in the way of fanfare upon its release - even the casting of A-lister and budding horror staple Ethan Hawke failed to elicit a great deal of mainstream interest. A it stands, the film holds the unfortunate honour of being one of the more critically-acclaimed sci-fi outings that nobody appears to have heard of.