The Thirteenth Floor (1999): Computer scientist Hannon Fuller has discovered something extremely important. He's about to tell the discovery to his colleague, Douglas Hall, but knowing someone is after him, the old man leaves a letter in his computer generated parallel world that's just like the 30's with seemingly real people with real emotions. (6.8)
Director: Josef Rusnak
Writers: Daniel F. Galouye (book), Josef Rusnak (screenplay)
Stars: Craig Bierko, Gretchen Mol and Armin Mueller-Stahl
I was going to say that this is a Matrix clone, but the two movies are contemporaries. Influences for this one lie elsewhere (read its Wikipedia entry) Also, this resembles, in a lot of ways, some of the stuff coming from today's theoretical physics (see my rant about being trapped in the matrix). In that sense, this movie, IMHO, accomplishes a lot more with the wonderfully done 30's period scenes than the Matrix does with blood, gore and bullets. Considering this came out in 1999, the computer-related scenes haven't aged that much in 12 years. Good acting. And, the fact that the leading characters are eye candy doesn't hurt either. Highly recommend it. My Rating: 7.5
