
In Talbot, Ohio, a father's need for surgeries puts the family in a financial bind. His son Vince, an electrician, overhears a man talking about making a fortune in just a day. When the man overdoses on drugs, Vince finds instructions and a cell phone that the man has received and substitutes himself: taking a train to New York and awaiting contact. He has no idea what it's about. He ends up at a remote house where wealthy men bet on who will survive a complicated game of Rus... (Full plot summary below)
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In Talbot, Ohio, a father's need for surgeries puts the family in a financial bind. His son Vince, an electrician, overhears a man talking about making a fortune in just a day. When the man overdoses on drugs, Vince finds instructions and a cell phone that the man has received and substitutes himself: taking a train to New York and awaiting contact. He has no idea what it's about. He ends up at a remote house where wealthy men bet on who will survive a complicated game of Russian roulette: he's number 13. In flashbacks we meet other contestants, including a man whose brother takes him out of a mental institution in order to compete. Can Vince be the last one standing?
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| BrianOrndorf.comBrian OrndorfIt's not quite the disastrous remake it could've been; however, by changing so little, Babluani has made the same mistakes all over again. |
| MovielineAlison WillmoreThis is a lumpy, dumb, suspenseless thing that sometimes scarcely feels finished. |
| Time OutKeith UhlichAside 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. |
| VarietyDennis HarveyA 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. |
| Reel Film ReviewsDavid NusairThe anticlimactic final half hour, which is capped off with an oddly (and needless) downbeat finish, cements the film's place as a curiously half-baked piece of work... |
| Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeAs 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. |
| New York PostV.A. MusettoWhile 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. |
| Village VoiceMichael AtkinsonLumbers, stumbles, and blows all its secrets at the outset. |
| The A.V. ClubNathan RabinFor 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. |
| Slant MagazineRob HumanickThe filmmakers are so generally clueless about getting the most out of a provocative concept that it's like running into a subtextual brick wall. |