XIII: The Conspiracy
XIII: The Conspiracy is a 2008 Franco-Canadian television film in two parts, based on the eponymous graphic novel series by Belgian authors Jean Van Hamme and William Vance, about an amnesiac protagonist who seeks to discover his concealed past. The film served as a pilot for XIII: The Series, which aired on television in 2011.
XIII: The Conspiracy
David Wolkove
Philippe Lyon
Canada
France
English
David Greene
Yann Hervé
86 min x 2 = 172 min.
Prodigy Pictures
Cipango Films
$20 million[1]
October 6, 2008
The film was directed by Duane Clark, stars Val Kilmer and Stephen Dorff, and was produced by Prodigy Pictures and Cipango Films. It was first broadcast in France in October 2008 by Canal+; followed by NBC in the USA in February 2009; by Nine in Australia (as The Conspiracy) in November 2009; and by Five in the United Kingdom in December 2009 (where it was shown as a single feature instead of in two parts).
Critical reception[edit]
At Metacritic, the miniseries has a weighted average score of 44 out of 100 based on 6 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[2] Its best reviews came from The Hollywood Reporter, who said "All in all, this isn't a half-bad political thriller."[3] On the other side, USA Today said "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."[4]