I have no idea how 13 Sins ended up in my queue. Maybe I was intrigued by the premise or the fact that Rutina Wesley is in the cast. 13 Sins wasn’t an awful film, but I didn’t need to see it. A man in a precarious financial position gets a phone call offering him money if he completes 13 tasks, and initially the challenges aren’t hard, but they become increasingly depraved and begin to change him for the worse. If he stops, he will have to face the legal consequences of his actions and remain in financial jeopardy, but if he keeps going, the moral consequences will be extreme.
I wasn’t surprised by many of the plot twists and actually predicted several of them, but was disappointed by how the character’s game concluded and 13 Sins’ too little too late ambition to tie the story to other conspiracy theories. There were two times when I thought that he should have been disqualified. It was a little too close to the Saw franchise for my taste. Not my cuppa, but at least Ron Perlman got paid.