The Thirteenth Floor
The Thirteenth Floor
R | 16 April 1999 (USA)
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Los Angeles. A wealthy man, known as Mr. Fuller, discovers a shocking secret about the world he lives in. Fearing for his life, he leaves a desperate message for a friend of his in the most unexpected place.

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Lawbolisted

Powerful

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GurlyIamBeach

Instant Favorite.

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Onlinewsma

Absolutely Brilliant!

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Allison Davies

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

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yan_mac

Not seen since 1999 (only remembered one scene) - still fab

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rzajac

A lot to love about this flick. It's classic hi-concept sci-fi, beautifully produced, mostly amazingly acted (the rest merely good), and ends the way the genre must to keep its cred; like a stunning chess end-game. Happy to see Craig Bierko here and glad to see that he takes direction very, very well. What the flick may occasionally lack in terms of the execution is made up for in spades by a subtly articulated myth. The primary idea is that the AI technology depicted arrives at the discovery that something indistinguishable from sentience "naturally" arises from its techniques. The flick then goes one further and depicts that certain specimens of the generated sentience come to exhibit a moral compass. This is no less than P.K. Dick-ian in scope and ambition. Kudos! Finally, I found myself tearing up at key, tender moments in the storyline. I was shocked! Few movies of any kind do this, and the ability of The Thirteenth Floor to tug at my heartstrings so bittersweetly was a rare treat and a stunning development. The only reason I slight my rating to one star shy of a '10' is that there's still something strangely hollow about the production... and I'm not sure what it is. It may have something to do with my dismay at finding that D'Onofrio occasionally seems a bit weak. I love the guy and always look forward to seeing him flesh out yet-another character... and yet here he seemed to be dropping balls from time to time. If you dig sci-fi and haven't seen TTF yet, hie ye to the aethers and take this one in.

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nikhilshah-21701

this movie has a nice start with a mysterious death of an old man who had time traveled and went inside someone else mind from the past with same characters tics as his. but the concept of the time travel not that believable, hacking into someones mind and whole stimulation of the world but most absurd thing was showing the end of the world which is barricaded by the government without any surveillance and at the end showing the origin of all the living creatures and other tangible things in form of computer stimulation form and their mind working as some semi conductor chip which doesn't makes sense. but as the story goes on it will acquire your interest especially in the part where you know about that there is another world who also know about time travel and they are even superior to them since they can hack the mind of the protagonist and made him to kill that old man who came to know about them. that old man was very good friend of the protagonist so he wanted to tell him about it but was killed. so before that he left a note for a protagonist and expected that he will too come in past in order to enquire about real reason of his death. movie becomes more interesting when the girl who came from future to help them and tell them about another world. as his husband killing people abominably just for fun and has can control the mind of protagonist. overall the movie has a good thrilling story with romantic ending. but some parts of the movies are pretty much new but were very predictable.

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jacklyn_lo

"The Thirteenth Floor" is a mix of sci-fi, mystery, spiritual, romance and action. My review is mostly about a spiritual side of the plot.There are 3 main spiritual ideas in the movie: 1. Transfer of consciousness 2. Creation of virtually programmed world 3. Multi-layered realityGlued together these thrilling ideas are working entertaining, but not answering the main question: How the developers of the virtual world created a consciousness?This question is not only non-answered, but it's totally ignored and leading to the number of other doubts: 1. Where the consciousness of the virtual people disappears when an upper-level entities-hosts enter their bodies? 2. How a virtual person remembers what his host has been doing in his body?And so on…We have to remember that creation of consciousness is a sacral magic with access by only ONE- our Spiritual Father. The gang of three from 1990 could build a virtual world, but could NOT create a consciousness, which means they COULD NOT move their own consciousness into the virtual world.The love represented in the plot is hastily done too: a woman from the upper layer is cheating her husband with a virtual character. Her explanation of that - the virtual character is nice, that why she falls in love with him.The movie is ended abruptly without providing any explanation what actually this multilayered "matryoshka" means.There are randomly dropped spiritually fancy words and phrases in the plot such as déjà vu, "not in this life", soul, etc. However, they are not corresponding any further explanations.I have to admit that the "vinaigrette" content has been packaged in entertaining way and probably gained a commercial success, HOWEVER, we have to be aware that trash movies could be far more dangerous than trash loans with more unpredictable and dangerous consequences for humankind. What is a learning message? I guess nobody knows. I m generously rating this movie by 2 stars for entertaining fantasy ONLY.

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