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The Thirteenth Floor (1999) 6.8
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Metascore: 36/100
Reviews: 291 user | 105 critic | 22 from Metacritic.com Computer scientist Hannon 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... See full summary » Director:Josef Rusnak |
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Computer scientist Hannon 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 parallel 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... Written by Danny Rosenbluth
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Language:
EnglishRelease Date:
28 May 1999 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
13. emelet See more »Box Office
Budget:
$16,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
$4,278,452 (USA) (28 May 1999)Gross:
ESP 77,806,285 (Spain) (13 July 2001)Company Credits
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Deep Dish with Everything But The Girl
Music by Dubfire and Sharam
Lyrics and vocal melody by Ben Watt
Lead vocal by Tracey Thorn
Additional vocal production by Ben Watt and Andy Bradfield
Courtesy of deConstruction Ltd. / Arista Records, Inc.
Everything But The Girl appear courtesy of Virgin Records
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Douglas Hall's house has been seen on film before as the apartment of Detective Deckard in Riddley Scott's 1982 ''Blade Runner''. It's a Frank Lloyd Wright building named Ennis House, located in Los Angeles, CA. See more »Goofs
The message left on Douglas Hall's answering machine clearly doesn't match the earlier scene where Fuller records it. See more »Crazy Credits
Before the opening credits, this 'René Descartes' (qv) quote is seen on screen: "I think, therefore I am" See more »Soundtracks
"The Future of The Future (Stay Gold)"Deep Dish with Everything But The Girl
Music by Dubfire and Sharam
Lyrics and vocal melody by Ben Watt
Lead vocal by Tracey Thorn
Additional vocal production by Ben Watt and Andy Bradfield
Courtesy of deConstruction Ltd. / Arista Records, Inc.
Everything But The Girl appear courtesy of Virgin Records
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This movie was both critically and financially panned. Why?
Two words. The Matrix.
The Thirteenth Floor is a good movie. No, it's not "The Matrix" all over again, but it wasn't trying to be. Comparing these two movies is like comparing Star Trek with Star Wars. Similar in aspects, but very different in others.
This is what happens when two movies of similar type are released in close proximity. The first one always has a jump-start on the second by means of box office success and pleasant reviews. That's why I think "The Thirteenth Floor" was branded as a bad movie. People had already seen "The Matrix" with it's knock-out special effects, cast and weren't open-minded for a movie on the same genre branch. So The 13th Floor was said to be 'a bland, pale imitation of the Matrix'.
Maybe "The Thirteenth Floor" doesn't have a star-studded cast - yes, it's cast is mostly regular supporting players, but they work well with the material. So there's no kung-fu ass kicking scenes, so what!
There's great atmosphere, a intriguing story and a real nice plot twist. To me that makes up a very fine movie. So I ask what was so very wrong with "The Thirteenth Floor" that made critics turn away and made it tank at the box office? Really it's people's unwillingness to give a similar movie a chance and instead opting to take the easy route and branding it as a "rip-off". Which is their loss unfortunately.