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The Thirteenth Floor
1999
A curious letter left by a murdered colleague leads computer scientist Douglas Hall (Craig Bierko) to investigate the mysterious circumstances. Hall finds a portal to a parallel cyber-world that resembles the 1930s, and when he becomes a suspect in the murder, he enters this cyberworld and finds many surprises. A film filled .. Read more
| Starring | Craig Bierko, Gretchen Mol, Vincent D'Onofrio, Armin Mueller-Stahl |
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| Director | Josef Rusnak |
| Genres | Sci-Fi/Fantasy |
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The Thirteenth Floor
A curious letter left by a murdered colleague leads computer scientist Douglas Hall (Craig Bierko) to investigate the mysterious circumstances. Hall finds a portal to a parallel cyber-world that resembles the 1930s, and when he becomes a suspect in the murder, he enters this cyberworld and finds many surprises. A film filled with atmosphere that leaves you wondering what is real and what isn't. Also starring Armin Mueller-Stahl and Vincent D'Onofrio.
| Starring | Craig Bierko, Gretchen Mol, Vincent D'Onofrio, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Dennis Haysbert, Steven Schub, Jeremy Roberts, Rif Hutton, Leon Rippy, Janet MacLachlan |
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| Director | Josef Rusnak |
| Studio | SONY PICTURES HOME ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 36 mins Blu-ray: 1 hr 40 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Sci-Fi/Fantasy |
| Language | DVD: English Blu-ray: English |
| Subtitles | DVD: Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Polish, Swedish Blu-ray: Castilian Spanish, Hindi, Norwegian, Finnish, Italian, Portuguese, English, Danish, Swedish |
| Released | DVD: 03 Jul 2000 Blu-ray: 13 Apr 2009 Production year: 1999 |
| Format | DVD |
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Computer technician Craig Bierko finds himself the main suspect when his boss — the mastermind behind a computer simulation of 1937 Los Angeles populated with programmed inhabitants who are oblivious to their actual origin — is found murdered. Though Bierko's subsequent investigation uncovers plenty of twists and turns, most viewers will have a pretty good idea of the final explanation after the first third of the movie is over. Predictable as it is, this still retains some interest. The computer simulation of the 1930s world perfectly re-creates the era, the performances are acceptable, and the script makes each sequence play out in an intelligent and plausible fashion.
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Confusing science-fiction, involving time travel into the past and the future; the problem is, nothing very interesting happens there, or in the present.
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19 out of 21 people found this review helpful
Question everything
13th Floor, without giving too much away, is vaguely similar to "The Matrix" but without the kung fu. It’s a more thoughtful version. Whether this is a good or a bad thing you decide.
The storyline is very cleverly thought out, and backed up by some solid performances. The director does a fine job of dropping in little hints and red herrings along the way. This film requires your attention for you to enjoy it, but as it is well directed and grabs it, you don’t have to battle to enjoy the film.
If you enjoy films that leave you questioning afterwards then I highly recommend "The 13th Floor" -
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Interesting but ultimately unsatisfying
CONTAINS SPOILERS...... This film is good enough to keep you trying to second guess what's going on but the ideas contained within are a little unsophisticated and don't stand up to much interrogation. Two issues I had with the plot were the transfer of an inorganic consciousness to an organic one, fair enough you could possibly synthesise an organic consciousness and put it in a program but you can't go the other way, which makes the end of the film a bit silly, unless of course the supposed top level worl is also a simulation. My biggest contention though was that if each person is merely a character in a simulation that can be 'played' for an hour or so by a 'user' in the real world then surely the whole 'world' would be having memory blackouts and changes of personality and be seen in odd places, i doubt that would go unnoticed for long. It's difficult for me to enjoy a film like this fully when it's implausible, I can certainly stretch my imagination to take account of science fiction and fantasy but the reality created by the fantasy must actually be possible in theory if not in practice. This film isn't, and while it's a bit of fun and worth a watch if you like the kind of reality-doubting films like matrix and the game, it's not a great and the last 20mins is really pretty cheesy.
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Bierko added to Scary Movie 4 cast
- 06 Oct 2005
Scary Movie 4, which has already started filming, has added Craig Bierko to its cast for the next instalment of horror movie silliness from David Zucker. Bierko recently starred in Ron Howard's Cinderella Man with Russell Crowe, Renee Zellweger and Paul Giamatti. It is an interesting change of venture for Bierko, who was also in Morgan Freeman's The Cherry Picker, The Thirteenth Floor and Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas. Regina Hall, who has been in the previous three Scary Movie films will be... Read more
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The Thirteenth Floor
A curious letter left by a murdered colleague leads computer scientist Douglas Hall (Craig Bierko) to investigate the mysterious circumstances. Hall finds a portal to a parallel cyber-world that resembles the 1930s, and when he becomes a suspect in the murder, he enters this cyberworld and finds ...
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