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The Thirteenth Floor
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
DVD Layers: 1
DVD Sides: 2
EAN: 9780767821629
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Full Screen, Special Edition, NTSC
ISBN: 0767821629
Label: Columbia Pictures
Languages: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 SurroundEnglish (Subtitled),
Manufacturer: Columbia Pictures
MPN: D02848D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Columbia Pictures
Region Code: 1
Release Date: October 05, 1999
Running Time: 100 minutes
Studio: Columbia Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: May 28, 1999
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Editorial Review:
Computer scientist Hannon Fuller (Armin Mueller-Stahl) finds something extremely important. Knowing that he's marked for assassination, he leaves a message in the virtual reality world he's designed, hoping it will be found by colleague Douglas Hall (Craig Bierko). Hall is a suspect in Fuller's murder and indeed finds a bloody shirt in his house, with no recollection of what he did the night before. Hall plunges headlong into Fuller's world (a re-creation of 1937 Los Angeles) to try to unravel the slaying and is soon knee-deep in confusion and trouble. What this film lacks in character depth and plot cohesiveness it makes up for in special effects and high concept. Fans of films like Blade Runner, Dark City, eXistenZ, and even the game Sim City should find this appealing. Of course, there's the question of letting the computers do all the heavy lifting in films while the humans walk through the plot (an all-too-familiar scenario in 1999), but the re-creation of '30s Los Angeles is certainly something to see, pallid script and acting or not. The Thirteenth Floor is a stylish modern-day noir that raises questions about technology versus reality, all the while wrapped up in a murder-mystery story line. --Jerry Renshaw
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - There is no future any more
One more film on various worlds, one on top of the other and the possible transfer from one to the other through some virtual reality system. Fine with me. But one layer is positioned as dominant and it is the most advanced in time that is. Why? Why not ours? Our time becomes nothing but the past of some other future time that is the real present. That is traumatic since after a while you do not know who is who and who is real or not in any world. Some are not even real at all in any world. The worse ... Read More
Rating: - Rent it, Buy it, but definitely See it.
The underlying premise is simple: HOW do we know we are real, or WHAT precisely IS reality? This movie can't answer that and after careful consideration it is obvious that NO ONE can. The safest thing to do is to fall back on Descartes' "I think, therefore I am". The alternative is lose oneself in a lifelong search for truth or possibly getting trapped in an endless loop of thought.
Although there are better movies (even sci-fi movies) to watch this one is highly entertaining and well worth ... Read More
Rating:  - Great sci-fi movie!
I watched this on TV before purchasing it for my library.
The Thirteenth Floor implies ghosts, goblins & spooky stuff. Nothing could be further from the truth.
It's a FANTASTIC virtual reality film!
I recommend it totally and have watched it more than once.
Rating: - Great Movie - Very disappointing disk
When I first saw this movie on cable about seven years ago I was very pleasantly surprised how entertaining and thought provoking it was. I won't get into a lot of details except to say that I like the way the movie makes you think and the scenery and costumes of 1937 LA is very convincing and contrasts greatly with the dark, chrome and glass look of the present day LA. I think the acting is about perfect for a quiet style of movie and I felt a connection to all of the characters. A couple of years ago ... Read More
Rating: - A Much Underrated Sci-Fi Film
This visual pleasure was seriously overshadowed by the Matrix that came out the same year. Unlike the other masterpiece, which was armed with an ambition of an epic in cinema, The Thirteen Floor is more creative in that there is no self-righteous mission of an entire population to fight against the Internet. There is no immediate indication that leads the audience to the division between physical reality and the virtual one--at least not until the latter half of the film. Instead, what it presents to us ... Read More
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