I...agree?

depends what season tough. Sex and the City movie was a longer episode from its last season which was great. If I Want to Believe is from any of the last seasons of the X-Files, then it's gonna suck.

Are Doggett and Reyes gonna be in this movie?

Nope.

It's a small movie. I can't imagine it costing more than two episodes of the show, save for the stars' increased salary. It really does feel like a mid-level episode. Fight the Future was much more, uh, movie-ish.

It seems like it could have just as easily been a TV movie, but because the first made over 200 million WW, they'd have to try at least one more time.

Im going to check it out though

The title still sounds like a cheesy Disney song.

Felt like a mid-season 2 parter, but it was still effective enough.


The commercials are misleading, though, don't expect a huge amount of supernaturalness like aliens or ghosts or some shit.

***

In it's defense... when I used to watch X-Files... it was far more of a thriller/crime solving show than a supernatural show.

Sure, it had supernatural elements, and was based on the super natural... but, still...

Or maybe I'm delirious.

Im just saying, the commercials were trying to make you think the movie had something to do with aliens, which isnt true at all.

(There was that part in the trailers, where this person jumps out from the ground and is all blue... yeah, the blue was added just for the commercial and isnt in the movie)

I want to believe that Chris Carter had actually put some effort into writing this film. I want to believe that when this was greenlit the intention was to make a watchable film. I want to believe that Duchovny and Anderson put aside their differences in re-uniting to make this film based on reading a good script. I want to believe that someone would've realized that the train was coming off the tracks during filming. I want to believe that someone involved would've tried to right the train. I want to believe that after 6 years they would've come up with something better than this. I want to believe that I didn't waste nearly 2hrs of my life.

Grade C-

I gave this movie an A - as an extended episode. Some of my nitpicks:

- Gillian Anderson needed some time to get back into being Scully. She didn't seem quite so familiar in the first part of the movie.

- It needed more supernatural elements. The psychic priest was too low-key for me.

- Referencing Mulder's sister was unnecessary and felt tacked on.

- Scully seemed to revert to being more skeptical than I remember her at the end of the series's run.

- Amanda Peet was a throwaway character

Literally

Now who's being mean today?

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To the point, the movie is mostly boring and uninteresting. This could have been a 2 hour Xfiles special on FOX. It did not have to be a movie as it didn't even deal with Xfiles whereas the first movie was heavily involved in xfiles lore this movie has none of that. We're zipped into the future where it seems Mulder and Scully are a unmarried couple who live together each invested in their own careers. What? Then we have multiple stories occurring at the same time none of which were particularly interesting. The only nice moment was when Skinner appeared towards the end. This movie was just so disappointing and completely utterly unnecessary. I think it really tarnishes whatever cred the xfiles series had.

Grade - C

Weird. It is basically like an extended episode. The first film actually felt like a movie - like it had to be seen on the big screen. This? Easily could have been a TV movie special. And the biggest problem is that...it's not X-Files. It barely even had any supernatural elements. It's just a murder/mystery with the X-Files brand name and cast.

All that said, it's not bad. Decent and interesting plot, somewhat entertaining, etc. Just don't see the point of making this film.

**

I'm deeply disapointed. I love X-Files to death but this movie was a joke. It not even felt like a movie to me. Just because there's Mulder and Scully its getting a D+ instead of something lower (which it probably deserves).

Did anyone else get the feeling that it was the "Dana Scully Show" and Fox was just a co-star.

I see this a basic thriller/mystery movie with a peppering of supernatural, but I thought it was pretty well done, just nothing really to stand out. I would like to add that I am happy they didn't go crazy at the end with a overly dramatic, drawn out, high tension scene; instead they went with a more realistic tone which I taught was good. All in all, I don't think anyone dropped the ball, sometimes you got to settle for a field goal instead of a touchdown.

Yea but it seems like someone was kicking a fieldgoal so they would lose by 4 instead of 7

Were you a fan of the show? Because if you were I can totally see why you were upset by it. I was not, so what I saw was an okay thriller that I will watch with pleasure when it is on TNT in a few years.

EDIT: I think I am not alone in saying that Fight the Future was better than this?

I'll be honest. I have never watched an episode of the show 'The X-Files,' nor have I seen the first movie that was made of it. So if you read this review as an ardent fan of the show, there is probably little value you will be able to take from it. However, if you, like me, were never into the show, I'm pretty sure you'll share my mindset, should you go out and see the film.

I will say this to fans of the show: There were people in the theater who obviously were 'X-Files' watchers, and they were definitely the people enjoying it the most. They laughed at all the in-comments, cheered when the major characters were first shown, and even got the most scared by the sudden moments of fright. So that's just about all I can tell you guys...if you watch the show, this will probably be a nostalgic experience for you.

Now here's how I felt. 'The X-Files' was a one-hour show back in its day, whereas 'The X-Files: I Want to Believe' clocks in at one hour and forty minutes. The amount of story they had to work here would have EASILY fit into a one-hour runtime for the show, and the feel of the movie was like that of a television show itself. In all honesty, this movie never tries to be anything more than an extended version of its show. That may be a good thing for fans, but for people judging it simply as a movie, it makes for quite a boring experience.

The story drags. A lot. There are very many scenes where it seems like something important should happen, but all that ultimately happens is that our protagonists become more conflicted in terms of whether or not they 'believe' (a major theme of the movie). Although the dialogue is written in a pretty realistic way, that doesn't change the fact that it provides few laughs or is any better than any of those mystery shows you can find on TV. Nothing about this movie makes me believe that I spent my $10 for something that I couldn't have gotten for free. 'The Simpsons Movie,' which came out last summer, was an example of a show-turned-movie that retained the mood of its show, but accomplished a lot more than its show ever dared to, thus making it it worth going out and seeing in theaters. This fails to achieve that.

But that isn't to say that there aren't positive aspects to this film. I may not have watched the show, but the chemistry between David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson feels lifelike, and it's obvious that they know how to play their parts well. And the story, while rather unspecial, never cheats itself or the audience by taking a sudden cop-out turn...it stays in line with the mythology of the show and the situation, and that's why it ultimately works as a plot, even if they could've given it to us in half the amount of time that it took.

I'm sure that any 'X-Files' fan would find something to like in this movie, because it certainly isn't a bad effort. It just gives you no reason to believe if you don't already.

C

I'd agree with what most people said... it didn't feel overly X-Files-ish and the overall quality was more along the lines of a "special" episode of the show.

With both Mulder and Scully being out of the FBI, most of the secondary characters dead or missing (like the Smoking Man and the Lone Gunmen), and with almost none of the mythos of the show being used in the movie, it just didn't work for me.

But, at the same time it was just nice seeing Mulder and Scully back together, even if it was a lackluster story and production. So, I'll give it a very generous C+.

I never watched the show except bits and pieces here and there and I didn't see the first one so maybe that contributed to my ... non-understanding. And I was also very drunk.

But I have no idea what happened in the movie. At all.

C