The Thirteenth Floor
by Josef Rusnak
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Actor: Armin Mueller-Stahl, Craig Bierko, Dennis Haysbert, Gretchen Mol, Vincent D'OnofrioDirector: Josef Rusnak
Brand: Sony
DVD: 2 Sides, Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Full Screen, NTSC, Special Edition
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 1.33:1
Running Time: 100 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1999-10-05
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Columbia Pictures
Movie Reviews of The Thirteenth Floor
Movie Review: There is no future any more
Summary: 4 Stars
One more film on various worlds, one on top of the other and the possible transfer from one to the other through some virtual reality system. Fine with me. But one layer is positioned as dominant and it is the most advanced in time that is. Why? Why not ours? Our time becomes nothing but the past of some other future time that is the real present. That is traumatic since after a while you do not know who is who and who is real or not in any world. Some are not even real at all in any world. The worse part is that you can just get rid of anyone in any layer of time in the past because your real existence is in the future present, the real future present world of 2024. So who cares about what havoc you may cause and create and enjoy in some past layer of the world? But it has no effect on the future because the film states that that future of 2024 is the real thing that commands all the past layers? But why not 3024? And what if 2024 were nothing but some manipulated past of 3024? Disquieting because then time does not exist any more, everything is in the hands of some super-being we don't know. In other words the film reinvents God, not as a real being but as a virtual necessity, a concept without which nothing stands. The film is well done, but the meaning is some absolute submission to some kind of fatality that makes us puppets, and the word is even used. We become irresponsible of our acts and that takes the pleasure out of our life because real pleasure depends on danger and danger depends on risk and risks are always faced in the present never in some kind of past or out of time.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris Dauphine, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne & University Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines
Summary of The Thirteenth Floor
When science meets virtual reality the line between two worlds in parallel dimensions becomes dangerously blurred. Special features: full screen and widescreen versions subtitles: english dvd rom and web link director and production designer commentary conceptual art gallery and much more. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 09/25/2007 Starring: Craig Beirko Vincent Donofrio Run time: 100 minutes Rating: R Director: Josef RusnakComputer scientist Hannon Fuller (Armin Mueller-Stahl) finds something extremely important. Knowing that he's marked for assassination, he leaves a message in the virtual reality world he's designed, hoping it will be found by colleague Douglas Hall (Craig Bierko). Hall is a suspect in Fuller's murder and indeed finds a bloody shirt in his house, with no recollection of what he did the night before. Hall plunges headlong into Fuller's world (a re-creation of 1937 Los Angeles) to try to unravel the slaying and is soon knee-deep in confusion and trouble. What this film lacks in character depth and plot cohesiveness it makes up for in special effects and high concept. Fans of films like Blade Runner, Dark City, eXistenZ, and even the game Sim City should find this appealing. Of course, there's the question of letting the computers do all the heavy lifting in films while the humans walk through the plot (an all-too-familiar scenario in 1999), but the re-creation of '30s Los Angeles is certainly something to see, pallid script and acting or not. The Thirteenth Floor is a stylish modern-day noir that raises questions about technology versus reality, all the while wrapped up in a murder-mystery story line. --Jerry Renshaw
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