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  • NBC
  • 2008
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XIII

Summary Based on a Belgian comic book and an Ubisoft video game, this action mini-series is about a massive governmental conspiracy involving the assassination of the first female U.S. president. A man is found hanging from a parachute in a tree with his memory gone. When elite special ops forces detect his location and track him down, he instin...

  • 2008
  • R
  • NBC
  • 2008
  • R
  • NBC

XIII

Season 1 Premiere: Oct 6, 2008
Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 6 Critic Reviews
44
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 8 User Ratings
6.3
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Summary Based on a Belgian comic book and an Ubisoft video game, this action mini-series is about a massive governmental conspiracy involving the assassination of the first female U.S. president. A man is found hanging from a parachute in a tree with his memory gone. When elite special ops forces detect his location and track him down, he instin...

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60
All in all, this isn't a half-bad political thriller. It just would have been better had it been about half as long.
By Ray Richmond FULL REVIEW
58
It's good, hammy fun, if you give in to the nonsense.
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50
What is obvious to viewers after only a few minutes is not obvious to the supposedly crack investigators dispatched to untangle the conspiracy, whose Ludlumesque layers they fail to see.
By Ginia Bellafante FULL REVIEW
40
It's the kind of story that asks you to either take off your thinking cap or be bored and indifferent.
By Matthew Gilbert FULL REVIEW
30
I imagine that there is some sort of mathematical correctness to the plot, but as a viewing experience it is vague, confusing and preposterous to the point that by the time all was revealed--or nearly all, since the film ends on an unresolved note--I had long ceased to care.
By Robert Lloyd FULL REVIEW
25
Poorly cast and performed (including an embarrassing turn by Val Kilmer), XIII is shot so murkily and staged so badly, you can hardly tell where people are, let alone where they're going.
By Robert Bianco FULL REVIEW

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Production Company:
  • Prodigy Pictures
  • Cipango
  • Canal+
  • M6
  • XIII Television Productions
Initial Release Date: Oct 6, 2008
Number of seasons: 1 Season
Rating: R
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Awards

Directors Guild of Canada
• 2 Nominations
Seoul International Drama Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Casting Society of America, USA
• 1 Nomination

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