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The 13th Floor (1999)
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Reviews Counted:59
Fresh:17
Rotten:42
Average Rating:4.6/10
Consensus: Bad script and confusing plot undermine the movie's impressive visuals.
Runtime: 1 hr 40 mins
Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy
Synopsis: Computer scientist Hammnod Fuller has discovered something extremely important. He's about to tell the discovery to his colleague, Douglas Hall, but knowing someone is after him, the old man leaves... Computer scientist Hammnod Fuller has discovered something extremely important. He's about to tell the discovery to his colleague, Douglas Hall, but knowing someone is after him, the old man leaves a letter in his computer generated paralell world that's just like the 30's with seemingly real people with real emotions. Fuller is murdered in our "real" world the same night, and his colleague is suspected. Douglas discovers a bloody shirt in his bathroom and he cannot recall what he was doing the night Fuller was murdered. He logs into the system in order to find the letter, but has to confront the unexpected. The truth is harsher than he could ever imagine. [More]
Starring: Craig Bierko, Gretchen Mol, Vincent D'Onofrio, Armin Mueller-Stahl
Starring: Craig Bierko, Gretchen Mol, Vincent D'Onofrio, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Dennis Haysbert, Steven Schub, Jeremy Roberts, Rif Hutton, Leon Rippy, Janet MacLachlan
Director: Josef Rusnak
Director: Josef Rusnak
Screenwriter: Josef Rusnak, Ravel Centeno-Rodriguez
Producer: Roland Emmerich, Ute Emmerich, Marco Weber
Composer: Harald Kloser
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Reviews for The 13th Floor
The makers of The Thirteenth Floor never figured out how to build a dramatically intriguing story around the concept!
A marvelous film right up until its inappropriate ending leaves you feeling betrayed.
This is genre film-making at its most superficially plot-driven, compounding its shallow characterizations with a ridiculous degree of self-importance.
... comes off as little more than a holo-deck adventure from an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, only with better production values.
The movie takes so much risk that it is a shame that about its only memorable parts are the cinematography and the set decoration.
The dialogue isn't aware it's cliched and hilarious; the soundtrack thinks it's backing an intense urban thriller.
This is a film about deeply confused people that seems likely to put viewers in a state of deep confusion for most of its running time.
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