This file is highly overrated. I can only think of a few possibilities why that is. First of all this probably is due to the fact that people are more reluctant to criticize world cinema or maybe it is simply that people are misled by the file being shot in black-and-white. I really don't know. What I do know is that the script itself is not very original. Tzameti is an Intacto (which, by the way, scores lower on IMDb than Tzameti, which is a bit of a disgrace) with Deerhunter ingredients. Because these are great movies this shouldn't be much of a problem. But only when all the other ingredients compensate this lack of originality. This isn't the case. The acting performances are poor. The acting as well as the plot does show the motivation of the people in the movie who are involved in the game. While Intacto leaves you wondering if 'in the real world' one man's luck is the other man's misfortune, Tzameti leaves you with nothing at all or maybe the question 'why are these people in it?'. This is far to little for a real good movie. Furthermore the music is annoying (far too much cliché thriller stuff). The plot, especially in the beginning, is very soap like (e.g when the letter is put on the table in front of the open window the viewer already knows it will blow away and later Sebastian clumsily runs into the letter). The plot also isn't very believable (the way the police loses track of the main character on the way to the game, the gamers with loaded guns in their hands while the gamblers stand around them, the way the main character listens through the open roof to a conversation and none of the people conversating notices the open roof with the wind blowing through it). There are though a few positive points (the tension at the start of the game with the light bulb and the good acting performance of Pascal Bongard) but it is all too little to say this is a good movie.
Review of 13 Tzameti
