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XIII - The Conspiracy [DVD]

Stephen Dorfff , Val Kilmer    Suitable for 15 years and over   DVD
3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
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  • Actors: Stephen Dorfff, Val Kilmer
  • Format: PAL
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: Lionsgate
  • DVD Release Date: 25 Jan 2010
  • Run Time: 173 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B0030DG3XM
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 24,475 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)

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Two-part political thriller mini-series starring Stephen Dorff and Val Kilmer. When the first female US President is shot dead by a sniper during her Independence Day speech, her assassin narrowly escapes the scene with national security hot on his heels - or so it seems. Three months later, a badly injured young man (Stephen Dorff) is found washed up on a beach. He appears unable to remember any thing about his past or identity, and the only clue is a tattoo on his neck marked 'XIII'. Could he be the presidential assassin for whom the American governement is desperately searching?

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Keeps you entertained! 26 Jan 2011
By A Customer
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I have to say that I like both Stephen Dorff and Val Kilmer the 2 leads in this film and found them very convincing in their roles.OK as with any book to film transfer it's impossible to include evrything unless you make it a 10 DVD set but the producers have done a good job here and Director Duane Clark has given-up a splendid,fast-moving film that has plenty of areas of pathos,ruthlessness and self-preservation.
Basically about a conspiracy to overthrow the US Presidency at ANY cost during the election for a new President after the last one, the FIRST US woman President has been assassinated.The threat comes from a fascist group led from within the Government by those who have seen it become the whipping boy on the Worlds Political Stage.
A good support cast Caterina Murino,Stephen McHattie,Jessalyn Gilsig.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Top class tv 12 Feb 2010
By PJ Rankine TOP 500 REVIEWER VINE™ VOICE
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The Americans do love a conspiracy and this is up there with the best. Stephen Dorff and Val Kilmer cross over from big screen to small screen as only the Americans seem to do and produce excellent work as the protagonists in this excellent thriller. It starts with the assassination of America's first female president and leads to a man found hanging from a tree in West Virginia with bullet wounds and no memory of how he got there. When the hit squad moves in to get him the conspiracy begins to unravel as he tries to find out who he is and how he got there. For one the NSA and Homeland Security aren't the bad guys either. Yes it has similarities to the Bourne series but I loved that too. XIII is presented in full screen and upscaled was one of the best definition dvds I have ever seen. The audio track was also excellent.
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7 of 9 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars 24 minus 11 14 Aug 2011
By A. Chell VINE™ VOICE
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US President Sally Sheridan falls victim to a sniper's bullet. As the gunman tries to make good his escape, he is ambushed by his co-conspirators, who want him dead rather than risk his capture exposing their plot. Some time later, a hunter out in the woods discovers a man suffering from gunshot wounds, dangling from his parachute in a tree. The man has amnesia and a tattoo above his collarbone of the Roman numeral for 13: XIII.

The rest of this mini-series owes a lot to the likes of '24' but is not done quite as well. Stephen Dorff plays the 'quietly-spoken but deadly special agent' role that Kiefer Sutherland perfected. His immediate opposite number is played, somewhat implausibly, by Val Kilmer, who has the additional handicap of being codenamed "The Mongoose". (The last mongoose I saw was a lithe and blindingly-fast predator. The producers of XIII were obviously prepared to accept 1 out of 3)

The rest of the supporting cast are played largely by actors whose faces will send you scuttling to the Internet Movie Database to remind you where you've seen them before. Chief amongst these actors is the ever-reliable Stephen McHattie as General Carrington who, it would appear, *SPOILER* gets to be elected President of the United States by the time of the follow-up TV series.

Glamour is provided by two female leads: Lucinda Davis, taking a break from voice work to play Steve Rowland's NSA handler Jones; and the gorgeous Caterina Murino, fresh from Casino Royale and the St. Trinian's reboot when this was filmed. Murino's role as the multi-pierced and tattooed Sam is not entirely convincing, however, not least because of her classical good looks.

As with `24', wherein just meeting Jack Bauer is likely to adversely affect your life-expectancy, Dorff leaves a trail of bodies behind him as he attempts to stop the conspiracy and find the elusive number one (I). In another similarity with the adventures of the CTU's best agent, the various twists and turns of the plot include a number of characters possibly not being who they seem to be, or are they? That said, if you don't guess the identity of `I' before the shock ending, you've not been paying attention.

In all, XIII is an entertaining piece of post-9/11 hokum, but one that's been done better elsewhere.
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