Turtles all the way down

The Thirteenth Floor (1999)

Directed by Josef Rusnak this film based on the novel “Simulacron-3” stars Craig Bierko, Gretchen Mol, Armin Mueller-Stahl and Dennis Haybert. The owner of a large tech firm is murdered a week after the company has made a virtual reality simulator.

The plot of the film adds to that of the novel but generally goes in predictable routes, tipping it's hand far too early to allow for much mystery. While the film poses the question how do know your world is real but does not really go much beyond this. As a leading actor Craig Bierko lacks any real personality and the time his character takes to put the clues together make for a pretty disinteresting protagonist.

3/5