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XIII
MINISERIES: NBC, begins Sunday 2/8 at 9:00p

XIII
Critic Score
Metascore: 45 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
10.0 out of 10
based on 6 reviews
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Starring Stephen Dorff, Val Kilmer, Stephen McHattie, Jessalyn Gilsig, Ted Atherton, John Bourgeois, Greg Bryk, and Caterina Murino

In this miniseries, based on the graphic novel by Jean Van Hamme, a man with no memory (Stephen Dorff) is the prime suspect in the assassination of the first female American president.

GENRE(S): Action / Adventure, Drama
CREATED BY: Jean Van Hamme (novel)
William Vance
FIRST AIR DATE: February 8, 2009

What The Critics Said

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60
Hollywood Reporter Ray Richmond
All in all, this isn't a half-bad political thriller. It just would have been better had it been about half as long.
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58
Entertainment Weekly Leah Greenblatt
It's good, hammy fun, if you give in to the nonsense.
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50
The New York Times Ginia Bellafante
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.
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40
Boston Globe Matthew Gilbert
It's the kind of story that asks you to either take off your thinking cap or be bored and indifferent.
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30
Los Angeles Times Robert Lloyd
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.
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25
USA Today Robert Bianco
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.
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