[MOVIE] The Thirteenth Floor

[Shendare]

I had never heard of this movie, but I just finished watching it, and I'm very glad I stumbled across it. Well worth the watch, somewhere between 4 and 5 stars. I only give 5 stars to movies I could watch over and over again, which are few and far between. This I could probably watch another time or two, at least.

 

Quickie plot appetite whetter (by yours truly):

 

A group of researchers has spent the last six years developing a fully life-like 24/7 persistent virtual world. It's designed to let people jack in by going unconscious and swapping minds with one of the characters inside.

 

Things become complicated when soon after the system is finally completed, the leader of the research group, Dr. Fuller, winds up dead. All fingers start to point to another man working on the project, Doug Hall, but Doug really liked Dr. Fuller, and wouldn't kill his friend and colleague.

 

Doug is informed that Fuller called his home phone number shortly before he was killed. When he gets home and finds a cut-off message on his answering machine, he starts to get the feeling Dr. Fuller wanted to tell him something... perhaps even that he tried to leave him a secret message -inside- the virtual world.

 

Doug heads back to work, and with the help of another friend on the project, jacks into the simulation for the first time. Thus begins the journey to clear his name and find the truth.

[SinisterDeath]

I saw this film several years ago, and it is awesome.

Btw, it came out before The Matrix.

And its the definitoin of a Matrix within a Matrix.  ;D

[ironcross]

although i havent watched it in a long time this is one of my favorite movies of all time.  the plot twists and turs a lot and the ending is not relly expected

[Shendare]

As soon as Doug's eyes flashed in the elevator I knew what was going to happen to him (both of him), so the final ending wasn't so unexpected for me.

 

However, I did have to smack my forehead earlier on when he started driving cross-country like the bartender. I was like, "Oh, duh! I'm an idiot. Pieces falling together, much?"

[Emperor]

Good movie.  It was one I do not think got enough attention. 

[SinisterDeath]

Good movie.  It was one I do not think got enough attention. 

 

I think it was 'too' complicated for the 'average' movie viewer.

[Shendare]

So the Wachowskis added machine guns and explosions and called in the ultimate dumber-down actor and the world gobbled up The Matrices. *laugh*

[Cadsuane]

This has been added to my Netflix. ^_^