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13 / 2010 / USA / 6.1 out of 10 Rating on IMDb

Plot

In Talbot, Ohio, a father's need for surgeries puts the family in a financial bind. His son Vince, an electrician, overhears a man talking about making a fortune in just a day. When the man overdoses on drugs, Vince finds instructions and a cell phone that the man has received and substitutes himself: taking a train to New York and awaiting contact. He has no idea what it's about. He ends up at a remote house where wealthy men bet on who will survive a complicated game of Russian roulette: he's number 13. In flashbacks we meet other contestants, including a man whose brother takes him out of a mental institution in order to compete. Can Vince be the last one standing?

It was ok but nothing more than that. Pretty obvious what would happen through the whole movie basically.


A Scanner Darkly / 2006 / USA / 7.1 out of 10 Rating on IMDb

Plot

In a totalitarian society in a near future, the undercover detective Bob Arctor is working with a small time group of drug users trying to reach the big distributors of a brain-damaging drug called Substance D. His assignment is promoted by the recovery center New Path Corporation, and when Bob begins to lose his own identity and have schizophrenic behavior, he is submitted to tests to check his mental conditions.

The movie was very interesting and great. Although I have to admit that I don't like the drawing style. It would have been better if it was maybe a mixture of both (real and drawing). I feel that this would have been a even better way to demonstrate that state of the drug and etc. Felt like being in a comic the whole movie. To me a bit of a unsettling feeling.