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Oct 26, 2011
60
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.
Oct 28, 2011
38
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.
Oct 29, 2011
35
This is a lumpy, dumb, suspenseless thing that sometimes scarcely feels finished.
Oct 26, 2011
33
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.
Oct 26, 2011
30
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.
Oct 27, 2011
30
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.
Oct 28, 2011
30
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.
Oct 26, 2011
25
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.