13 Tzameti (Géla Babluani, 2005)

A young builder overhears his employer planning to undertake 'one last job' before dying inadvertently and leaving him out of pocket for the work done. So, the callow youth assumes the boss's identity, unaware that he's heading into deep trouble with an underworld gambling ring revolving around Russian roulette.
Interestingly for cinematophiles, Babluani's film starts so fumblingly on a technical level before moving on to a surer-footed noir style that it's tempting to view this as possibly the first ever example of levels of competence in direction being used as a mirror of the protagonist's progression. There's also a detached Melvillesque nihilism to the dramatic arc which reassures you against patness.
However, 13 Tzameti doesn't have much to say beyond that, and Babluani might have well have admitted as much when he took the Yankee dollar five years later to remake it. With Jason Statham, bien sur.

5/10