The horror flick 13 Sins is passable enough when it comes to dialing up the suspense, but the “Saw” formula of a mysterious voice guiding our hero through a series of depravities has gone a bit stale.
Achieves a modest degree of tension and dark humor before tilting into gory overkill, while its diffuse central ideas — about materialism, the dangers of playing God and the latent human capacity for violence — never really take plausible shape.
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The DissolveScott Tobias
The DissolveScott Tobias
This ultimately isn’t a film about human fallibility, but about high-concept grotesquerie for its own sake.