Average Rating: 7/10
Reviews Counted: 67
Fresh: 56 | Rotten: 11
This starkly minimalist nail-biter of a thriller relentlessly builds up the tension and keeps the audience guessing.
Average Rating: 6.3/10
Critic Reviews: 22
Fresh: 16 | Rotten: 6
This starkly minimalist nail-biter of a thriller relentlessly builds up the tension and keeps the audience guessing.
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An aimless 20-year-old with a penchant for following the rules receives a mysterious set of instructions that lead him down a path from which he may never return in director Géla Babluani's tense tale of death and chance. Sébastien has come into possession of a train ticket and a mysterious set of instructions. Though he is unsure of exactly what fate awaits him when he arrives at his destination, one thing is certain: these items were most certainly not meant for him. Bored by his uneventful
Jul 28, 2005 Wide
Feb 13, 2007
Palm Pictures
All Critics (71) | Top Critics (23) | Fresh (60) | Rotten (11) | DVD (10)
Easier to admire than it is to sit through, the French film 13 (Tzameti) is an exercise in stylish depravity that may one day be viewed as the debut of a great filmmaker.
A tightly screwed shocker, a suspense tour de force that proceeds through a harrowing chain of events with alarming confidence.
It may be smarter than Saw II or Saw III, but it's just selling a classier brand of sadistic voyeurism.
The Georgian-born French director Gela Babluani makes an absorbing debut with this black-and-white thriller.
The Babluanis are brothers to pay attention to.
Top Critic13 (Tzameti) might seem allegorical, but it's too cynically concerned with what works as entertainment to offer larger truths about human existence.
Meant more as perverse gimmicky entertainment than in telling anything meaningful about the human condition.
13 Tzameti does suffer from a weak and even lazy conclusion, but that doesn't stop 90 minutes that come before it. This truly is deserving of being unforgettable.
Bites into the dubious poison apple of the new market economy.
I knew nothing before I saw this film, except I heard it was intense (it is) and a little violent (also true). It's also well made, disturbing, and rather hard to forget.
an impressively noirish moral fable that, for all its bleakness, offers ample rewards to those willing to take a chance on it.
Biting into the dubious apple of the new market economy.
At its center is an astonishing set-piece that will rivet almost any moviegoer.
French version of Fight Club, revolving around a clique of crazies who enjoy betting on a deadly game of chance.
the most artsy spin on The Most Dangerous Game ever plunked down on the screen.
A gritty, high attrition-rate mindbender guaranteed to keep you on the edge of your seat from start to its shocking finale.
Comes off like a punch in the stomach. A terrific, focused first-effort by the Georgian emigre Gela Babluani.
"13 Tzameti" has you on the edge of your seat with a story that throws unexpected punches at every corner.
A stylish and unnerving thriller that sucks you into surreal scenes of horror with the chilly confidence of a nightmare.
Started well with suspense and mystery, then went head first into shock and horror then it kind of went downhill and tried to be all film noir. Was good but bit up its own arse!
September 30, 2009Super Reviewer
Although not graphically violent in terms of blood and gore, this film reminded me of a more serious version of 'Hostel' and perhaps a little of Johnny Depps 'The Brave'. The black and white filming suited the darkness of the piece. It does take a little warming up and reach the main storyline, but once the main
March 23, 2007Super Reviewer
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