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Extras : Scene index, Trailer, Filmographies, Music Video, Conceptual
Art Gallery, Before and After SFX Comparison, Audio Commentary
Director:
Josef Rusnak
Producers:
Roland Emmerich, Ute Emmerich and Marco Weber
Screenplay:
Josef Rusnak and Ravel Centeno-Rodriguez
Music:
Harald Kloser
Cast:
Douglas Hall: Craig Bierko
Hannon Fuller: Armin Mueller-Stahl
Jane Fuller: Gretchen Mol
Jason Whitney: Vincent D'Onofrio
Detective Larry McBain: Dennis Haysbert
The Thirteenth Floor
is where some secret research is occuring in a bid to travel back in time and, for
one Hannon Fuller (Armin Mueller-Stahl), see again what the world was like
in your youth. However, in his travels back to 1937 he knows the new world is nothing
more than a computer simulation.
Problems are abound when Fuller is murdered and prime suspect is Douglas Hall (Craig
Bierko, who some will remember as the main bad guy from
The Long Kiss Goodnight), one
of his staff. Along with colleague Jason Whitney (Vincent D'Onofrio), Douglas
goes back to 1937 to find out exactly what's going on because he certainly doesn't remember
killing anyone, let alone his boss of whom he respects greatly.
Back in the good old days, Douglas meets a bartender named Ashton, the alter-ego of
Whitney, who has been handed a letter from Fuller to give to Douglas before he's
killed. Naturally Ashton doesn't do this and the scene is set for his nasty realisation
that his world isn't what he expected.
Now if you read the above, it might make the film sound dull and derivative as hell,
but for me, with its overtones of Back to the Future, Tron and Quantum Leap,
it comes together really well and has a clever twist that will make you question your
own reality.
The cast also includes Gretchen Mol as Fuller's daughter Jane - who only shows up
after he's dead and brings some major revelations with her - and Dennis Haysbert
as Detective Larry McBain, who turns up body after body for which Douglas cannot account.
The picture has a layer of grain in many of the scenes, which seems to affect quite a few
Columbia titles and for no reason whatsoever. The film is presented in its original 2.35:1
ratio and is anamorphic, while the average bitrate is 4.65Mb/s, occasionally peaking above 7Mb/s.
The sound fares much better though. There are great sound FX to be heard when someone
goes into the simulation, effecting producer Roland Emmerich's
Stargate) movie, not to
mention a well-used soundstage that creates tension and in the past, your room is filled
with the sound of thirties' music band.
Extras :
ddd
Chapters :
A good round 28 chapters from Columbia.
Languages/Subtitles :
Dolby Digital 5.1 in English alone. Subtitles in 14 languages :
English, Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Icelandic, Hindi, Hebrew, Dutch,
Turkish, Danish, Swedish, Finnish, Greek and Norwegian.
And there's more... :
A 2-minute Trailer, Filmographies for just Bierko, Gretchen Mol and the
director, a Music Video courtesy of the Cardigans (Erase/Rewind), a
Conceptual Art Gallery - albeit with just a few pictures and a Before and After
SFX Comparison for some scenes but again it's only a small number of images.
There's also a feature-length Audio Commentary from director Josef Rusnak
and production designer Kirk M. Petruccelli, but you get the feeling that most
of these extras will be ones that you won't go back to very often.
Menu :
Simple, static and mirroring the front cover.
Overall, this is an accomplished little film even if the ending is rather
cliched. It also failed to get a cinema release in the UK, perhaps due to
poor US box-office performance as it went almost head-to-head with last
year's total clunker, but somehow popular,
The Matrix).
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