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XIII
Genre: Action
Director: DJ Caruso
Cast: Taylor Kitsch, Bruce Willis, Mark Strong, January Jones, Michael Douglas, Nicole Beharie, Denis Leary, Colm Feore, Robert Patrick, Lambert Wilson

Plot:
A man (Taylor Kitsch) awakens, finding himself washed ashore and suffering from amnesia. The only links to his past are a tattoo of the Roman numerals "XIII" on his collarbone and a photo of himself with a woman, Kim Rowland (January Jones), widow of U.S. Army captain Steve Rowland. As "XIII" begins trying to figure out who he is, he finds himself hunted by a contract killer, the "Mongoose" (Mark Strong), who works for a mysterious organization known as XX, which aims to mount a coup d'état against the U.S. government. XIII is rescued from XX's assassins by the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Colonel Amos (Bruce Willis), who confronts XIII with video evidence that shows XIII assassinating the President.

XIII is captured by General Carrington (Michael Douglas), who confirms that XIII is Steve Rowland. Carrington further explains that Rowland was a member of a special ops unit called SPADS (Special Assault and Destroying Sections). Carrington had been commander of SPADS when Rowland was supposedly killed in a helicopter crash two years earlier. Because XIII's amnesia prevents him from identifying who sponsored the President's assassination, Amos lets him go. XIII escapes the police with Carrington's help and meets Kim, an XX member known as "XVII", who reveals that XIII is not Steve Rowland. XIII is arrested by the police, and Kim disappears. XIII is found guilty for the murder of the Rowlands and sent to a maximum security prison.

Due to his amnesia, XIII ends up being sent to a section of the prison for the criminally insane. Amos, still pursuing his investigation, realizes that XIII was a body double for the real Steve Rowland. Amos requests Carrington's help to identify people who have been trained as top-level special operators and match XIII's physique. Amos' plans to use this information to discover XIII's true identity. Carrington provides the papers of about twenty people. One named Ross Tanner has been missing for two years. Amos decides to leave XIII in prison to have his amnesia treated. The treatment fails, and the Mongoose tries to have XIII killed in the prison, but he fails, and Carrington and Major Lauren Jones (Joy Bryant) help XIII break out.

Amos finds out that Carrington had invented the Tanner identity and suspects him of being part of the conspiracy to kill the President. XIII, under the name of Ross Tanner, has been hidden by Carrington in a SPADS training facility on the island of San Miguel. Amos continues to delve into the files and learns that Steve Rowland was murdered shortly after the assassination. Amos now assumes that Rowland was the real assassin, and is confused about XIII's real role, but he exposes Judge Allenby (Robert Patrick), the head of the investigation, as one of the conspirators. Amos interrogates Allenby, who is killed by Mongoose's assassin. Amos himself is rescued by Kim Rowland.

Kim Rowland takes Amos to intelligence chief Carl Heideger (Colm Feore) and General Carrington, who reveal that, after faking his death in the helicopter crash, Steve Rowland contacted his wife, Kim, and forced her to be a member of the conspiracy. Kim, not sharing the conspiracy's ideology, and herself a former secret agent, secretly alerted her former boss, Heideger. Despite having this information, however, Heideger was unable to prevent the assassination of President Sheridan. Steve Rowland was shot by the Mongoose, but he escaped badly-wounded and died shortly after telling Kim what had happened. Heideger and Carrington then came up with a plan to make the XX organization believe that Steve Rowland had survived, hoping to attract the Mongoose's killers, arrest them, and follow their trail to the conspirators. They sourced a man named Jason Fly who was transformed into a Steve Rowland double, but soon after, Fly disappeared, when he was shot and lost his memory. Kim Rowland is also revealed to be Carrington's daughter.

XIII and Jones kidnap the Marquis de Préseau (Lambert Wilson), a rich French land owner in San Miguel, to steal his jet to fly back to the US. Meanwhile, Carrington and Heideger have been arrested by the conspirators as they prepare to take over the country during a large-scale military exercise. XIII and the women meet with Colonel Amos, who brings them into contact with Walter Sheridan (Denis Leary), brother of the assassinated President William Sheridan and himself a candidate for presidency.

Sheridan helps XIII infiltrate the military center of operations, and they manage to stop the conspiracy at the last moment. The entire conspiracy group, with the exception of the illustrious Number I, has been either killed or captured. Walter Sheridan is elected President, and Kim Rowland remains missing for reasons unknown. XIII believes he has found his old identity as Jason Fly and is prepared to continue his life normally, even if his memories have not yet returned.