13

Aside from some character-defining flashbacks, a godawful score and sweat-enhancing color photography, it's the same movie as before - a divertingly tense yet superficial time-waster.

While the original was an art-house success, this English-language redo, now getting a one-week run after sitting on the shelf for a year and a half, doesn't measure up.

For a film about a "sport" where every competition is literally a matter of life and death, the oddly inert, suspense-free 13 is strangely lacking in urgency.

As leaden as the bullets whose random behavior it revolves around, Géla Babluani's 13 fails to recapture the sweaty tension of his original 13 Tzameti, a French import that reeked of style and first-timer ambition.

What does it add up to? Nothing much. A tense, paranoid nightmare with a chilly metaphysical overview has been trampled into a blustering, bad cartoon.

A starry cast and glossier production values simply work against the black-and-white original's strengths in this stillborn thriller about a deadly game of chance.

The filmmakers are so generally clueless about getting the most out of a provocative concept that it's like running into a subtextual brick wall.

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Decent cinematography and pacing join with a high quality budget to tell a gangster mystery letter that leads an unwitting electrician to perform a desperate act to help fund his fathers healthcare. Potent but ultimately nothing too surprising to be found that hasn't already been explored in the medium. Worth a watch if you like a good thriller.

It's worst on every bad way you wanna say it, neither of the actors stands up and at the end of the line, you can't praise him for nothing. I guess it could have been a little bit more fine if it was directed by Guy Ritchie, al least it would have been funnier.

When I saw it's trailer and cast I said: 'Wow, it gotta be a great movie.' But after I watched the film I realised without a doubt this is one of the dumbest movies ever.

This movie is just really bad. I don't know why I even watched it till the end, I probably hoped it would get a bit thrilling towards the end, but no, it's just boring all the way through. The characters are just completely faceless and you don't care a bit about them, not even the main protagonist (which is funny since the movie is about seeing real people as worthless numbers). Not even the roulette scenes let come up any tension because you don't care who dies and you wouldn't even care if the protagonist died (though you know some random people will die except the protagonist). And yes I keep saying "the protagonist" because I can't even remember his name although I just watched the movie 5 minutes ago. Yes, It's that bad. They even try to establish a "main rival" or something between the rounds, which is just plain stupid because winning is pure luck. Did they even know how luck works when making the movie?