Using the Mayan calendar it is now the 13th day
of the 13th month in 2013 and all hell is about to break lose. This is the dilemma of 13/13/13 (2013) that says that the world is on the brink of
destruction as everyone not born on February 29th will go insane and
kill other people or themselves. With
only a handful of people left alive to fend for themselves against a populace
of insanity Jack and Candace (Trae Ireland and Erin Coker, respectfully) must
escape a hospital filled with people trying to kill them in order for Jack to
get back home to his daughter.
The alliance of these two characters is due to the fact that
Jack watched his ex-wife jump out of a hospital window and Candace was forced
to kill her nephew who tried to kill her.
They’ll have more insanity to get through before the day is over as the
whole world is coming apart at the seams.
Written and directed by James Cullen Bressack the film has
an interesting concept once you get past the absurdity of the concept (only
people born on Leap Year are unaffected which begs the question of cultures all
over the world who go by a different calendar how they would be affected). The other thing that drags down the film is
the fact that for the most part all the action takes place in two locations –
the hospital and Jack’s house (where a separate story involving Jack’s three
friends driven insane are supposed to be watching his daughter). Too much time is spent at the hospital and
everything at Jack’s house drags down the rest of the film.
Having an apocalypse happen on 13/13/13 was probably a great
selling point for the film but the execution leaves a lot to be desired. For the most part Ireland does a good job
with what he’s given but Coker is under developed and becomes a useless
sidekick through most of the film. The
production values are actually not that bad but that is one of the few good
points in an otherwise highly forgettable film.
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