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Destined
Simultaneously telling the parallel stories of RaSheed, a rising star in the architectural community, and Sheed, a neighborhood drug dealer, the ambitious drama explores the ideas of destiny and how even the smallest incident can manifest into a life changing event.
7 July 1965, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
1959, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
17 May 1966, Iowa City, Iowa, USA
9 November 1979, Chicago, Illinois, USA
29 May 1979, Medellin, Colombia
11 October 1980, Brooklyn, New York, USA
November 17, 2017
Tracking one life, on two possible paths, the gloomy drama Destined derails into a rut of self-seriousness.
November 16, 2017
Unfortunately, the two stories add up to less than the sum of their parts, with the intertwining narratives failing to comment on each other in sufficiently resonant fashion.
November 21, 2017
[Destined is] a film as much about showing audiences our similarities beneath nature/nurture as it is the guilt and regret we carry everyday.
November 16, 2017
Basir flubs his big point about fate, choices and paths - that no matter our lives, we face the chance to change for good or bad - by embracing all the clichés he can find, then filming them without nuance or style.
November 17, 2017
An amusing idea that runs out of steam not long after the premise is established.

