This movie is as underrated as The Matrix is overrated. The characters and plot are more interesting, the actors are more charismatic, and most importantly is done in a little over 90 minutes. The Matrix wears its welcome well before it's over. It was just a victim of bad timing and very little buzz (it opened shortly after The Phantom Menance). That's why I started this conversation to get this movie some attention.
the thirteen floor was bad. very bad. it was a waste of a $1.00.
McMovie.
Was worth pay-per-viewing while on the road during a business trip. The twist is telegraphed, but even so it wasn't so bad- decent performances by Armin Meuller Stohl and supporting actor Vincent D'Onofrio.
I thought it was a happier ending, then The Matrix, and alot more to accept, when it came to thier realities. I thought it was interesting too.
I loved the trip back to the 1930's, and the view of the future in this film was more optimistic, then it was in Matix
I saw this a few weeks ago on cable and thought it was ok. A bit weird, but then again, so am I.
NITS
* The guy into whom Douglas' boss turns in the 1940s says that he has been married for more than thirty years and never betrayed his wife. How would he know? His world is a virtual one, and the team only started working on it six years ago. How can he have memories dating back thirty years or more?
* If someone's eyes turn neon blue, there's a transfer, right? But in the end, when Douglas and David are fighting, David - in Douglas' body - is dying, AND THEN HIS EYES TURN NEON BLUE! Wouldn't that mean that there's a transfer and now Douglas is dying? That would really spoil the happy ending.
Great lines:
"They are just as real as we are!" (Douglas about the people in his simulation - and right he is)
"There are thousands of worlds like this - but yours is the only one to ever build a simulation within the simulation."
I enjoyed this- could've used a bit less language, but it was good. Kind of a Back to the Future-ness about trying to keep track of the paralel/alternante characters, but overall a good story. I liked the bartender's notion that the 'real world' was just a bunch of TV screens. The happy ending was one that I saw coming from a pretty big ways off, however.
As the sort of 'grandfather' to the Matrix, I have to say that I deffinetly enjoyed this film better than it's 'offspring.' :-)
But this film did come out around the same time as The Matrix, so it's not so much a grandfather as a film that came out within about 3 months of The Matrix.