Review of Thirteen (2003) by Ben D — 09 Nov 2014
What a pile of garbage. I hate it when these types of movies just make the characters do the worst, most horrible things for no reason other than to scare the parents of today. They say the main girl in this movie is in seventh grade.
I can tell you right now, when I was in seventh grade, I didn't know anyone who went to the level this chick goes to. It's exploitative and I hate it. Now maybe the director of this movie just wanted to make a movie that showed that teenagers do stupid and horrible things.
Ok fine. I don't really like that idea, but I could forgive that. Alas, the director had to take it one more step forward. She tried to get the audience to care about these characters, despite them being the most selfish, disgusting, annoying, idiotic, and bitchiest characters I've ever had the misfortune to come across.
Not once did I feel the slightest bit of sympathy for ANY of them, not even when the main chick was cutting herself. If I don't feel bad for someone who is cutting themselves, then the movie has done something very, very wrong.
This is exactly like the pile of crap that is Kids. A bunch of teenagers doing terrible things with no real emotional weight to it.
This review of Thirteen (2003) was written by Ben D on 09 November 2014.
Thirteen has generally received positive reviews.
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