本片改编自比利时的连环漫画册，欧美连环漫画册的灵感来源于同名游戏XIII。在老兵纪念日上发表讲话的美国历史上首位女总统遇刺身亡后的三个月后，欧美一个浑身是伤、衣衫褴褛的男人（斯蒂芬·多尔夫 Stephen Dorff 饰）出现在某森林里。他没有名字，没有记忆，没有过去，面目全非，似乎从不曾来到过这个世界。唯一的线索，就是身上的纹身“XIII”。XIII得到神秘组织的帮助从监狱里死里逃生，遇到似曾相识的恋人，被神秘组织强迫做交易的同时，被另一伙人追杀。而他们的目的，就是藏在XIII手表里的记忆芯片，一切都扑朔迷离。XIII发现自己被卷入一个惊天阴谋，自己也并非真正的XIII，真正的XIII早在刺杀总统后就被灭口，自己是由时任国家安全局副局长的将军指派的卧底，意在引诱幕后主某的出现......
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回复 :A rising political star faces scandal and blackmail when the young woman he tries to help turns out to be a juvenile delinquent
回复 :Fraught with over obvious symbolism, Hartley's early feature is nonetheless a joy to watch. Hal here shows us his uncanny ability to cast his characters perfectly came early in his career.Adrienne Shelley is a near perfect foil to herself, equal parts annoying teen burgeoning in her sexuality (though using sex for several years); obsessed with doom and inspired by idealism gone wrong she is deceptively – and simultaneously – complex and simple. Her Audrey inspires so many levels of symbolism it is almost embarrassingly rich (e.g., her modeling career beginning with photos of her foot – culminating her doing nude (but unseen) work; Manhattan move; Europe trip; her stealing, then sleeping with the mechanics wrench, etc.)As Josh, Robert Burke gives an absolutely masterful performance. A reformed prisoner/penitent he returns to his home town to face down past demons, accept his lot and begin a new life. Dressed in black, and repeatedly mistaken for a priest, he corrects everyone ("I'm a mechanic"), yet the symbolism is rich: he abstains from alcohol, he practices celibacy (is, in fact a virgin), and seemingly has taken on vows of poverty, and humility as well. The humility seems hardest to swallow seeming, at times, almost false, a pretense. Yet, as we learn more of Josh we see genuineness in his modesty, that his humility is indeed earnest and believable. What seems ironic is the character is fairly forthright in his simplicity, yet so richly drawn it becomes the viewer who wants to make him out as more than what he actually is. A fascinatingly written character, perfectly played.The scene between Josh and Jane (a wonderful, young Edie Falco . . . "You need a woman not a girl") is hilarious . . . real. But Hartley can't leave it as such and his trick, having the actors repeat the dialogue over-and-over becomes frustratingly "arty" and annoying . . . until again it becomes hilarious. What a terrific sense of bizarre reality this lends the film (like kids in a perpetual "am not"/"are too" argument).Hartley's weaves all of a small neighborhood's idiosyncrasies into a tapestry of seeming stereotypes but which delves far beneath the surface, the catalyst being that everyone believes they know what the "unbelievable truth" of the title is, yet no two people can agree (including our hero) on what exactly that truth is. A wonderful little movie with some big ideas.
