The first female US President Sally Sheridan is shot dead by a sniper during her Veterans Day speech. Her assassin narrowly escapes the scene with his life, national security hot on his heels - or so it seems. Three months later, an elderly couple discover the body of a wounded man in a tree, wearing a parachute. The young man cannot remember the slightest thing about his own identity.
Stephen McHattie Jessalyn Gilsig Val Kilmer Stephen Dorff Caterina Murino Jacqueline Pillon John Bourgeois Hrant Alianak Mimi Kuzyk Julian Richings Daniel DeSanto Cedric Smith Andrew Jackson Greg Bryk Nigel Shawn Williams Lucinda Davis Scott Wickware Jonathan Higgins Ted Atherton Barbara Gordon Luke Vitale Goûchy Boy Dan Duran Matt Baram Todd Sandomirsky
XIII: The Conspiracy, XIII - A Conspiração, 终极刺客, 杀手十三：阴谋, 杀手13, XIII - Die Verschwörung, XIII - La conspiración, XIII : La Conspiration, XIII - La Cospirazione, XIII - Spisek
Das "XIII" Franchise war ja irgendwie schon immer der kleine verstoßene Bruder von "Jason Bourne". Egal ob Videospiel/TV Zweiteiler oder TV Serie nichts davon konnte erfolgversprechende Früchte aus dem belgischen Comic rausholen. Trotzdem muss ich zugeben, dass der TV-Zweiteiler eigentlich viel richtig macht.
Stephen Dorff gibt dabei den titelgebenden Agenten 13 der angeschossen in seinem Fallschirm hängend von einer älteren Familie mitten im verschneiten Wald gefunden wird. Kurzerhand wieder aufgepäppelt kann sich dieser an nichts erinnern außer an seine bestehenden Fähigkeiten im Bereich Kampf und Technik, die wie von selber kommen. Doch desto tiefer er gräbt, umso mehr setzen sich die Erinnerungsfetzen zusammen und das alles, während es die Regierung und eine Killertruppe auf ihn abgesehen hat.
Soweit so "Jason…
XIII is based on the Belgium comic XIII and served as a pilot for a TV-series in 2011.
It is a tribute to the 1970s conspiracy genre, as the story focuses itself on a group of conspirators who all share a Roman numeral tattoo. The aim is to overthrown the current administration and set up a fascist regime which would restore the old grandeur of the USA.
As a tribute to the comic it serves pretty well and it sticks pretty close to the original story up to the finale.
The only disappointment is Val Kilmer as the Mongoose, with the comic the Mongoose has a bigger part and unfortunately his role is slightly diminished in this pilot.
Still it has made me curious enough to chase down the follow up tv series from 2011.
I'm a very big fan of the XIII comic series; I own all the comics, including the spin-off series. I've also played the hell out of the XIII game on the original XBOX back in the day, which was loads of fun (and frustrating because the game worked with checkpoint and not quick saves 😂).
Anyway, I've watched this movie at least five times when I was in my teens, but I haven't seen it since so I was interested if I would still like it.
The short answer is: yes.
Although, I have much more knowlegde of the source material than I did 12 years ago. I'm not going to be that guy that is nitpicking the whole series,…
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XIII
Hier da machen wir alles. Zweiteiler, Serie, Videospiel. Die Graphic Novel ist schließlich in Frankreich abgegangen wie nen Zäpfchen.
Joa interessiert nur weiter keinen.
Man hat hier zwar den ersten Nippelbatman in ,,Scheck abhollaune,, und Blades ersten Widersacher, aber über den zweiten Gang kommen wir trotzdem nicht hinaus.
Die XIII hat nämlich ein Problem......OH MY GOD, ITS JASON BOURNE!!
Der feuerte das Thema nämlich mehrere Jahre im Dauerfeuer durch und da kann die TV-Beilage nicht mithalten.
XIII
We do everything here. Two-parter, series, video game. After all, the graphic novel took off like a suppository in France.
Joa, nobody cares anymore.
Although we have the first nipple Batman in a "check cashing mood" and Blade's first adversary, we still don't get past second gear.
The XIII has a problem......OH MY GOD, ITS JASON BOURNE!!!
He's been firing away at this topic for several years and the TV supplement can't keep up.
Very average, bog standard adaptation of one of my favourite series of graphic novels.
I had always loved the Belgian comic series XIII but had in the past only read the first dozen or so. It's only recently that I finally got a hold of the remaining ones and after finishing them thought it was about time to give this adaptation a shot at last.
In this TV production they changed and added characters, locations and even the season this plays in and as a result one is left with just the bare threads of the story.
The original comics started off being very, ahem, inspired by Jason Bourne but eventually went their own way with a complex conspiracy and…
After seeing this over and over in bargain bins, I finally took the plunge. Stephen Dorff and Val Kilmer starred in the underrated Felon in the same year that this was released so I was curious if they would be good together in this as well. The most concerning thing was the three hour running time that appears on both the Blu-ray cover and IMDb so I knew I would need to watch this when I had a block of time available. The weird thing is that the movie was actually only just over two hours. It seems like this was a two episode mini-series so I assume they cut it down for video release to more of a feature…
After the president is assassinated, a man played by Stephen Dorff is hunted down by a cache of killers headed by Val Kilmer.
Made for TV movie follows the typical formula which is done pretty well. Dorff and Kilmer do a good job elevating the material to a enjoyable level.
XIII The Conspiracy is about agents having tatoos numbered in the roman way. One guy has a lapse of memory. Sounds like The Bourne identity yes ? And so it is, because the Belgian comics XIII, started in 1984, was inspiration for Robert Ludlum.
The movie is told fairly well. There is a whole organisation with agents having those mystery tatoos. So there is a conspiracy. Why is it there, what does it want ? The movie does a fairly good job of keeping you curious.
Do not ask me what happened here
Have a vague memory of catching this on cable at my aunt's place when I was like twelve. Anyway, deranged how you can get a kitschy and fun and kinetic little comic book like XIII and turn it into something as muddy and flat as this. That said, it's worth a watch just for Dorff and Kilmer, who kill it even if Kilmer is very nearly wasted. Some fun dynamics at play here left over from the comic, too, but again I wish we could get a live-action adaptation with some flair and visual panache (the original video game absolutely kills it at this!).
When the first female President of the US is assassinated during a speech, all hell breaks loose. This is the beginning of Conspiracy XIII.
It looks as if the assassin has escaped. Some time later, an elderly couple find a wounded man whose parachute is stuck in a tree. He has no idea who he is. On his neck is a tattoo "XIII."
The assassin is still being hunted, and when the young man uses the computer at the elderly couple's home, the government tracks him there, but he gets away.
Some suggest this is an inside job, not from outside terrorists, possibly to influence the upcoming election.
XIII is desperate to find out who he is, and what he's…
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
De afgelopen paar dagen zijn er twee nieuwe XIII strips uitgekomen. Omdat het zowat een jaar duurt eer de volgende in rij uitkomt, is dat dus altijd een moment om naar uit te kijken. Vandaag allebei de strips gelezen en ik kwam tot de conclusie dat ik nog meer XIII wou en mijn wensen werden verhoord toen ik tot de conclusie kwam dat ik deze miniserie nog opgenomen had liggen van een televisie uitzending.
Al veronderstelde ik wel dat ik effectief de miniserie had opgenomen (VT4 kondigde de film volgens mij ook aan als miniserie en zond ze effectief in 2 delen uit) maar halverwege kwam ik tot de conclusie dat ik dus een geknipte versie was aan het kijken.…
