X-Files - I Want To Believe (DVD)

It's an X-Philes movie, it clearly states the claim this is one for the gang, for the in-crowd, when we're treated to a close-up of a pic of Mulder's sister in an early scene and then when Mulder & Scully go back to FBI headquarters Mulder exchanges a brief glance with a passing young female agent and gazes after her for some considerable time as she walks away, for no evident reason in the plot. It's Samantha Morton, who played Mulder's kid sister in the original series and appears here again briefly all grown-up now as the girly FBI agent. Yup, it's an X-Files in-joke; we're home, folks.
It's like that all the way through this touching movie. Every time you see a street name or a store sign, you know it's the real-file name of one of the production crew. What's it about? Belief. Do you believe, do you have faith? Bear in mind that the central kid, the kid with the illness, is called Christian. They could have called him Eric, or Jamey, or Ken, but instead they called him Christian. They dress it up, but this is a movie about keeping the faith, and, really, if you recognise Samantha Morton, you'll realise early on that keeping the flags flying and the torches burning is what this movie's all about. It's great to be back on home turf again, though I would have liked to see more of Skinner, that bald beautiful man, who is only shoehorned in for a token appearance. Watch it right to the end, past the credits; just before it fades Mulder and Scully wave from their boat. They wave to camera, first time I've seen them do that, but hey, once we recognised Samantha Morton, we already knew that they knew we'd all be here. Here's back atcha guys, and thanks; this movie is one for the faithful. Count me in.

BB

underated film have watched it twice found first time little confusing but second time really enjoyed it more like original series of x files rather than a big budget movie

Despite what the title suggests, it had nothing to do with Mulders long battle with the alien conspiracy or anything X File's connected. What turned out was a gory horror movie that would never fit in with the X Files mould. Its been a long time since I wanted to stop watching a movie and sad to say this was it.

having been an x files addict for many years I was really looking forward to the new film, but must admit that the whole experience was very disappoiting. The storyline wouldn't have been sufficient for one of the ordinary episodes in any of the series. Most x files tales have an element of the supernatural or science fiction but this story was more along the gory lines of a slasher movie. I suppose I will have to accept that the x files cases should finally be allowed to close.

The X-Files Film was a Great 2nd movie from the cast, loved watching it over and over again, with in the story and twists which took me by excitment, great film

If this were a spin off of 11th hour or The Mentalist there would be incredible raves about it, but no, it's a 10 year old TV series.
The Story is very good, Billy Connoly doing a surprisingly good character line, and the Duchovny/Anderson magic has never left.
As a stand alone film, it is superb, as part of the X-Files genre, a bit of a let down in as much as you wanted to see Krawcek or The Lone Gunmen, or more of Skinner. Still, very watchable.

The film was more or less as expected and had a great cast, but I somehow felt it could have been better. I'd say it was on par with one of the X-file eps (before Doggit) and I enjoyed it, but again felt it could have been so much more. Another annoyance was the quality of the picture, should have been clearer on a DVD but it was not much better than VHS, although this is production fault and nothing to do with the original film. If you're an X-files fan (and I am) I'd say watch it, at the cinema or rent it, but definitely not a keeper, I doubt I'll watch it again any time soon. On the whole not as exciting as the first one.