America's first female president is shot during Memorial Day when she announces that she will bring back the troops from the Middle East. The shooter is about to leave the scene of the crime. Val is sitting in a car and communicates with someone that the shooter is about to leave. As soon as the killer exits an elevator two security guards shoot at him, but he kills them. Then Val confronts the killer himself but he manages to escape.Then a military higher up, General Carrington, meets some little black girl and they talk about some failed mission, bodies, and someone who escaped.Now we meet a hunter who discovers a guy hanging from a parachute and bleeding. He takes him to his home where his wife takes care of him. The guy has a tattoo on his upper chest "XIII". He has some flashbacks but also amnesia. He knows nothing previous to waking up at the hunter's home. But they also discover he's got great military/self-defense skills and has some muscle memory of accessing some sites with a memory card he had in his watch.The NSA run by the awesome Colonel Amos in the meantime is trying to find the killer and eventually make public the picture of XIII.But Val and some military unit show up and shoot up everyone at the hunter's place. XIII escapes but is eventually grabbed by the NSA. He's tortured, uh...interrogated, but since he's got amnesia he has nothing to say. He manages to escape. And always Val after him who grabs him at some point only to lose him again. Eventually the little black girl and Carrington contact XIII and tell him what is going on.XIII of course is on a mission to discover his past. He's got pictures of a woman. But Carrington lets him know that he has a task to complete. He's not really the killer but his job is to draw out a conspiracy deep within the government. XIII agrees to continue. And sure enough, since the election is coming up there are powerful interests trying to obtain a certain result. After the president was killed, several terrorist attacks have taken place on US soil and XIII discovers a major nuclear attack planned on election day. Terrorism is as usual used by hawks to try to direct foreign and domestic policy. And the surprises continue till the very end.XIII has a fantastic rich and complicated story involving political intrigue, conspiracies, red flag operations, terrorism, etc. It has some good action scenes as XIII is almost invincible. I wouldn't expect too much realism in the action scenes, or some of the political details but that's fine. It has a good cast in part: Dorff, Kilmer, Bryk (a revelation and star-making performance), McHattie, Bourgeois. But there are casting problems as well: Higgins is weak in a key role, Murino is gorgeous but her accent is rather thick. Davis is completely miscast. Editing could have been better to make the story a bit smoother. Things are unnecessarily unclear at first, with short nonsensical flashbacks. Direction too isn't as good as this story deserves. Still, in the absence of 24 or something like it, XIII is a thrilling movie/mini-series.

XIII: The Conspiracy appears to get off to a decent start, but as the film unrolls it quickly unravels. The action slows down, and boring, repetitive, nonsensical babbling quickly takes over. Unfortunately, nothing is said that makes any sense - just confusing hogwash about politicians, spies, an emerging election and amnesia. The amnesiac was the luckiest of the cast. At least he had a justification for not knowing what was going on. Instead of the discussions between the actors and actresses delineating the preceding action, and setting up the next round of fisticuffs, explosions, and torture, they do nothing but randomly bump the film in a different, unexplained direction. This serves only to give the actors, who randomly pop in and out, just some time to create a new situation or two that only adds to the confusion. Wherever this dog is barking, there must be a better movie playing at a theater within walking distance. Take the walk. Or if you're on your sofa, stretch for the controls and flip the TV dial randomly and you'll come up with a better choice. This is one of the worst movies I have ever seen.

I bought this in the hopes that it would be a decent game-to-movie conversion. Although, in this case, it appears to have been based on the original book, which I did not realize existed at the time. I bought it cheap, because I doubted it would be. And I was right.Of course, the "good" president is a Democrat, who is "bringing the troops home". FYI, the Commander-In-Chief is not in charge of keeping the troops safe, (s)he is in charge of leading the troops. We all want the troops to be safe, but their job is not a safe one. The CIC is there to command them, not coddle them.Predictable.They had to mention Haditha, and dishonorably discharged Marines (who became bad guys). Never mind the fact that every Marine from Haditha was cleared of all wrongdoing.Predictable.The really evil bad guy is none other than the "Republican" presidential candidate. Gee, I never saw that one coming.Predictable.The good guy magically disarms a nuclear bomb that's seconds away from blowing up (and they don't even show how he did it).Predictable (and lazy script writing, to boot).In short, I wasted $10 on this drivel, it wasn't even worth half that. I'm just glad I didn't spend the extra $5 on the Blu-Ray version.

In my opinion, XIII is very interested TV-mini series. In the style of Bourne Identity, 24 and Shooter, XIII is one of the movie you should watch. Actually, I founded the additional information about this movie after I searched XIII's information in IMDb and I found that it had the video game in the same name. As a result, I knew that XIII was really the comic books but was made as video game and the movie later. It also inspired from Bourne Identity as well which made me don't surprise about how the movie was in its style.For the cast, I was surprised that Val Kilmer had a role in the TV-mini series. (as same as I surprised that he played the villain role) He hasn't seen in the theater-releasing film for a long time, so I thought it liked a big surprise that a big superstar who used to be Batman and had many great role in the Hollywood film decided to play on the Franco-Canadian TV mini series. As The Mongoose, Kilmer played his role very well. I think everyone could not believe in his performance. Oh! Why our hero decided to play villain? He made everyone thrilled and hated him. So, I think he is one of the greatest Hollywood actor as same as John Travolta who had many experience as the good guy and the bad guy.Stephen Dorff was very good in his role. He looked like Jason Statham very much. His look in the movie was realistic and authentic. Other guys also fit in their role. Although, somebody should have more participated in the movie. For example, Kim Rowland, she was appeared in very short time and was died on the middle of the movie. In fact, she was one of the important character in the XIII's comic books, but when she was appeared only the middle of the movie and then, she was shot and died. It misfitted! For about the plot, it was very interested to watch and very reasonable. An amnesia guy who was found that he is one of the conspiracy people who try to make a very huge coup d'etat in the history of the U.S. using the assassination of the first-ever U.S. female president as the first step of the plan. However, everything was twisted. Actually, he was the CIA special-opts who decided to work with General Callington from the NSA in the order to stop the huge scheme by masquerade as the president's murderer with XIII code.As I explained, I highly loved this plot and also how the movie was going on. I also liked how the movie was far away from women's hurting by men. Unlike Shooter and Bourne Ultimatum, XIII avoided about how the women was hurt by men which is how I liked it. By the way, this movie had some complaint. Even the action scene was OK and the plot was very good but some complaint was occurred. For example, how The Mongoose had the connection with XIII (or Steve Rowland or Ross Tanner whatever) it should have more explanation. Also the last hour of the movie in Part 2 which was too confused.For the summary, I didn't think that this movie was really bad. Many one could have any comment as they want. But for me, XIII was very good, even I didn't like some scene and it maybe not as great as the Hollywood film but you have to notice that this was only the TV-mini series not the theater-releasing film. Also the ending scene of the movie which could make someone disappointed how it was end, but if you find more about the information of XIII, you will understand how the movie goes. As a result, XIII was very good TV mini-series.