25
So what is real? Only the boredom of the audience as the film collapses from one meaningless false-bottom environment to the next.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
30
Between the 12th floor and the 14th floor, boredom awaits!
38
Chicago Tribune by Barbara Shulgasser
Let's just say that not revealing this film's idiotic intricacies would be like not divulging that the fish is rotten lest the news spoil the surprise of food poisoning. [28 May 1999, Friday, p.A]
60
Washington Post by Desson Thomson
Things become almost too strange and convoluted to handle. The story's dramatic effectiveness starts to seriously malfunction. The fascinating and the mysterious become the silly and occasionally comical.
10
Offers no perverse philosophical conundrums and no eye-popping visuals. It's a dull, lifeless bore.
60
A solid, interesting B-movie, in another season it would seem a good deal fresher.
40
Los Angeles Times by Kevin Thomas
For all the soaring visual splendor of its past, present and future, it's hobbled by a murky plot that proves to be not all that original once it starts unraveling.
40
The New York Times by Lawrence Van Gelder
Repackaged as cyberthriller, the old time-travel adventure returns in this stylish but overplotted and ultimately illogical combination of science fiction, mystery and romance.
30
Austin Chronicle by Marc Savlov
Fumbles on so many levels it's just plain silly. To paraphrase the film's tagline: The Thirteenth Floor: You can go there, but why would you want to?
50
San Francisco Examiner by Walter Addiego
No-one's-home acting by Bierko and Mol doesn't help, while the talented D'Onofrio ("The End of the World") and Mueller-Stahl (a veteran of European pictures) are better than the material.