The Thirteenth Floor Details

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.

Confusing science-fiction, involving time travel into the past and the future; the problem is, nothing very interesting happens there, or in the present.