Review of 13

13 (I) (2010)
6/10
Simple but tense story, good in places but poor in others
22 May 2017
Desperate to find a way to pay for his father's ever-increasing medical bills, the young and naive protagonist stumbles across a way that just might achieve that.

The involved set-up makes for a slow start. The next sequence gives an intriguing mystery. The sequence following this provides the guts of the film. Its fish-out-of-water nature exacerbates the tension; a piece of undiluted tension.

After this you get the feeling the film-makers run out of ideas and enthusiasm. The story-line is flat and goes downhill. The ending looks like the makers just wanted to wrap the production up and move onto other things.

This is a pity, because you feel that given more effort the makers could have produced, given the originality of its premise, quite a polished film.
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