The acting is largely good, with Craig Bierko impressing in the lead role. However, the movie makes up for this with the excellent way that 1937 Los Angeles is created - it's easy to buy into the film's multi-world plot, and for that reason it doesn't need special effects to work. Despite being a science fiction film, there is very little in the way of special effects in this film. The twist at the centre of the movie extremely well worked, and after it hits you'll ask yourself how you didn't guess it sooner - and that is testament to the excellent plotting preceding it. The film asks questions about the value of life and the ills of playing God and although these questions have been asked by many films many times before here, it's done so well that you forget that and ask yourself these questions all over again. The film works both as an entertaining science fiction flick, and a thought provoking drama. He was working on a computer simulated world before his death, and his colleague Douglas Hall, believes that the programmer left the key to discovering his murderer inside the virtual world.prompting him to go in search of it. The film follows the death of a computer programmer.
Whether or not this version is better, I can't tell you having not seen Fassbinder's version but I can tell you that this version is worth seeing.
Galouye, which is the same book that inspired Rainer Werner Fassbinder's "World on a Wire". The film is based on the book "Simulacron-3" by Daniel F. Not everything in this film works, and for that reason and others it's no masterpiece, but you've got to admire The Thirteenth Floor for it's originality, and it's ability to pull a coherent plot out of a scenario that has 'disaster' written all over it. The Thirteenth Floor is one of those films that has gotten lost under all the more well-known films of the late nineties and this is a shame, because it's a damn sight better than a lot of the films that always receive praise from the critics.
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