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Title: 13 Sins (2014)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Mark Webber | ... | Elliot Brindle | |
| Devon Graye | ... | Michael Brindle | |
| Tom Bower | ... | Father | |
| Rutina Wesley | ... | Shelby | |
| Ron Perlman | ... | Det. Chilcoat | |
| Pruitt Taylor Vince | ... | Vogler | |
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Clyde Risley Jones | ... | Gerry (as Clyde Jones) |
| Deneen Tyler | ... | Joyce | |
| Tom Lawson Jr. | ... | Prof. Edgar Solomon (as Tom S. Lawson Jr.) | |
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Sharon Smith | ... | Hostess |
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Greg Pearson | ... | Security Guard |
| Ritchie Montgomery | ... | Apartment Manager | |
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Brylee Kate Woodard | ... | Little Girl |
| Sabrina Gennarino | ... | Mother | |
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Hugh Ettinger | ... | Priest |
Elliot Brindle is a bright, meek salesman, drowning in debt - and desperate as he's about to marry the love of his life. Upon receiving a phone call informing him that he's on a hidden camera game show where he must execute 13 tasks to receive a sum total cash prize of $6.2M, Elliot dismissively follows through with his first two instructions: swat the fly that is currently bothering him, then eat the fly. With thousands of dollars suddenly appearing in his bank account, Elliot remains skeptical, though comforted by the knowledge that he can stop playing at anytime if only to lose every penny that he's won. Trapped into the horrors manipulated by unseen spectators, Elliot's need to complete the game escalates as the tasks grow more extreme, to a devastating point of no return. Written by Anonymous
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I truly liked this movie. This movie was of the puppeteer type as I like to call them. A person or person(s) are committing atrocities yet someone else is pulling the strings.
13 Sins is about a man, Elliott Brindle (Mark Webber), who is down on his luck when he's offered an opportunity to win loads of money to help alleviate his woes. There are 13 tasks to complete and the rules are such that once he starts he pretty much has to continue to completion. Of course the game is anything but harmless.
I was impressed with the plot and the build up. Before having some random person launch into a morbid game we first got to see the type of person Brindle was and the type of issues he had to deal with. Pregnant fiancé, disabled brother, elderly father, and recently terminated from his job. This information wasn't thrust in there as an aside, we were given it organically within the flow of the movie.
It's also a movie that makes you think: "How far would I go for a sizable sum of money?" The puppeteer type movies always find human weaknesses to prey upon and they are usually either greed or survival. Where movies like "Saw", "Die", "Vile", "Circle" and others are about pure survival at its core, "13 Sins" is about social survival. Elliott could've easily opted not to play but what quality of life would he have given his situation?
There were some small flaws with the movie but overall it was a good product. They took a known premise and freshened it. It helped that the actors were good and you didn't totally know what was the end game. Yes, I truly liked this movie.