13/13/13 (2013)

Save your money for something good and enjoyable

Excellent but underrated film

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

The fact that this centuries' trifecta doomsday dates ended at 12/12/12 did not deter the folks at Asylum. Never should the facts stand in the way of a horror film. For some reason "we" were never meant to have a leap year, but rather "we" were supposed to add a month every 120 years. Apparently the creation of artificial calendars has a profound effect on people. On this new calender date of 13/13/13 people suddenly go into a berserker mode for no real reason and people born on Feb 29 are unaffected most likely for the same reason, whatever that is...my guess is angering the calendar god of an extinct civilization.Okay, it is easy to overlook plot point stupidity in a horror film, especially Asylum. This creates a zombie like atmosphere where a small group of people (in this case 2) must battle against raging hordes of humanity who also like to kill each other and themselves. Jack (Trae Ireland) our main character takes his divorced wife (Calico Cooper) to the hospital leaving his daughter Kendra (Tiffany Martinez) alone with his redneck buddies. When all hell breaks lose he wants to go back home to try to find his daughter who wasn't born on Feb 29...That is the story. There are gallons of blood all over the place with the opening scene being a sad display of special make-up. There is an unreasonable amount of F-bomb dropping with an uncomfortable scene with 12 year old Kendra crudely asking a grown man if he wants to have relations with her making this unrated film unsuitable for most people.This is not the direction Asylum needs to go.Parental Guide: F-bombs. No sex or nudity. Sex talk.

I really enjoy a good horror movie. This movie is TERRIBLE. I can be easy going on a movie if it has a good story line. But the entire premise of this movie is wrong (Dead Wrong). Leap year doesn't add anything to anything. The reason for February 29 is because a year is 365.25 days. So instead of having a 1/4 day every year we add it up and even everything out every 4 years. And we haven't been "Adding a day for millenia". Leap Year started in 8 AD. Very rarely have I not been able to finish a movie. This is one that I just couldn't. The laughter was annoying. The swearing got old quick. As for Trevor being a pervert, Why was that just thrown out there? Wouldn't Jack not let Trevor hang out with him if he was a pedo? Jack is an ex-cop isn't he? And how weak must one be to have a 12 year old girl kill him? The cinematography is such poor quality. One reviewer said it felt I was watching a VHS ... He nailed it on the head. The music is bad ... Very bad. and lame. The people who gave this any kind of good review works for Asylum. I have no doubt about that. I really hated the external shot of the hospital they used over and over and over again. Quentin shooting one of the crazies at that distance with a handgun without even aiming.... c'mon! DO NOT WATCH! just don't!

The Mayan calendar did not have leap days, so we've been miscalculating. Anyway, the 13th month of the 13th year after the beginning of the third millennium is upon us (exact date, who knows?) It is to laugh.Quentin, Jack, Joe, and Trevor are out in the wild, doing some drinking. I'm not sure what else is going on for them to be out there. I did not see hunting gear, fishing gear, anything to eat, or hiking shoes. Jack, a former policeman, thinks one of the others has been fooling with his watch since the time is wrong. We get to see the military time 13:13:13 (1pm plus a bit) in the year 13 (short for 2013, I suppose) in Jack's watch.As they drive, the SUV's clock starts showing 13:13. Jack checks on his daughter Kendra. (Dad is African American, Mom is Anglo, their 'natural' daughter is Latina; go figure, it's set in LA). Kendra is non-responsive; Marcy is tearing all the skin off her left forearm. The hospital where they take Marcy is a madhouse of bad manners and incompetence. Kendra kills Trevor, which was unexpected. Joe and Quentin kill two people in Kendra's neighborhood by running them over. After failing to kill Jack, Marcy jumps out the third floor window to her death. Quentin stabs Joe, and both of them think it's funny as they play with the blood.At the hospital, the walls are covered with blood. Jack finds Candace, who is also not infected. Candace and Jack were both born on February 29th; Candace figures that is why both of them were not affected. Jack decides to go back to check on Kendra. Candace objects, but Jack goes through with it. She does convince him to make a plan. I did not see his accomplishing that. They decide to fight their way out to get to where Kendra is, and perhaps any other non-crazy people. This works for a while, but neither of them got there in a car to get to Kendra. They make it to the car park with keys, but have to match some keys with a car. They encounter large, still healthy bullies intent on killing them. They emerge OK, and head for Jack's home.Quentin and Joe have armed themselves with Jack's guns and ammo. They get in each other's road, of course, but decide to kill off the other crazies first. They survive for a bit, but Joe starts to bleed out. Jack and Candace join them, but the house is under siege.The emergency radio says the outbreak has affected all 50 states.Will anyone get out alive? ------Scores------Cinematography: 7/10 Daylight scenes should be sharp and good to look at. The film starts in washed out, low contrast mode. I felt like I was watching VHS output from a tape player with dirty heads. Color contrast was low as well.Sound: 5/10 Too much maniacal laughter. Some of the incidental music is poor.Acting: 0/10 Some of the worst I have ever seen. Enough fake laughing to last twenty years.Screenplay: 2/10 Stupid dialog plus terminally stupid dialog. Very little in the way of natural motivation.SFX: 2/10 Poor.

This movie sucked. I would love to know who seriously thought this movie was good enough to fund, and continue filming the entire time. Terrible acting and poor writing. This writer/director should not be allowed to make movies. Do not waste your time and/or money on this crap movie. I had no idea what this movie was about when I downloaded it, thank God I didn't pay for it. It immediately lost my interest about 20 minutes in. What is up with these people with a camera and money that think they can just make a terrible movie like this? I seriously can't express how lame this movie was. Watch The Signal instead.. It's a brilliant movie compared to 13-13-13