The X Files: I Want to Believe is directed by Chris Carter, a sci-fi tv series adapted into the movie. It was a horror-crime drama written by Chris Carter and Frank Spotnitz. This was a second film based on The X Files franchise created by Carter, following the 1998 film "The X-Files: Fight the Future". The three main characters from the television series re-appear in the film. David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson and Mitch Pileggi, reprise their respective roles as Fox Mulder, Dana Scully and Walter Skinner.
The X Files: I Want to Believe offers the viewer many mysteries to contemplate, and only one of them is on-screen, as David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson return to roles and a franchise that last graced our TV screens in 2002 (and was last on the big screen in 1998), your mind swirls around the behind-the-scenes facts as fiercely as it does around the events playing out before your eyes. As reclusive, retired ex-FBI agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully (Duchovny and Anderson) help the FBI with an abduction case. It begins with the abduction of a female FBI agent, cross-cut with a FBI search of a snowy field. Agents Whitney (Amanda Peet) and Drummy (Alvin "Xzibit" Joiner) are led by psychic Father Joseph Crissman (Billy Connolly) to a severed male arm buried in the snow. Whitney tracks down Dana Scully, now working as a doctor at a Catholic hospital, in the hopes that Scully can connect the FBI with Mulder, Mulder is disgraced and even wanted by the FBI, but the suggestion is that Mulder's past work in the bizarre and unusual cases known as the "The X Files" will give him an insight into working with a psychic. The FBI doesn't really trust Crissman, and with good reason, he's a convicted pedophile who's been exiled from the church for years.
The X-Files: I Want to Believe is also marred by bad guys who are simultaneously smart enough to engineer a multi-person kidnapping ring but dumb enough to make traditional movie villain errors like not checking to see if the person they've tried to kill is actually dead, or running a few errands while the person they want dead is lying there unconscious. Screen time devoted to the traditional back-and-forth between Mulder and Scully, his hunt for truth in the darkness against her need to find faith in the light, and all of that stuff, is screen time that could have been used to make the villains of the piece more compelling, or, at the very least, more interesting.
I have been watching The X Files from season to season. And when I heard there was a film I nearly passed out. I found that I enjoyed this movie a lot. One of my favorite Television series translated wonderfully to film. Thanks to creator Chris Carter’s detailed and revealing screenplay. “The Truth Was Out There” and Mulder and Scully finally found it. The X Files had the luxury of hit the big screen, making it a perfect complement to a truly groundbreaking sci-fi tv series.
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The X Files: I Want to Believe offers the viewer many mysteries to contemplate, and only one of them is on-screen, as David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson return to roles and a franchise that last graced our TV screens in 2002 (and was last on the big screen in 1998), your mind swirls around the behind-the-scenes facts as fiercely as it does around the events playing out before your eyes. As reclusive, retired ex-FBI agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully (Duchovny and Anderson) help the FBI with an abduction case. It begins with the abduction of a female FBI agent, cross-cut with a FBI search of a snowy field. Agents Whitney (Amanda Peet) and Drummy (Alvin "Xzibit" Joiner) are led by psychic Father Joseph Crissman (Billy Connolly) to a severed male arm buried in the snow. Whitney tracks down Dana Scully, now working as a doctor at a Catholic hospital, in the hopes that Scully can connect the FBI with Mulder, Mulder is disgraced and even wanted by the FBI, but the suggestion is that Mulder's past work in the bizarre and unusual cases known as the "The X Files" will give him an insight into working with a psychic. The FBI doesn't really trust Crissman, and with good reason, he's a convicted pedophile who's been exiled from the church for years.
The X-Files: I Want to Believe is also marred by bad guys who are simultaneously smart enough to engineer a multi-person kidnapping ring but dumb enough to make traditional movie villain errors like not checking to see if the person they've tried to kill is actually dead, or running a few errands while the person they want dead is lying there unconscious. Screen time devoted to the traditional back-and-forth between Mulder and Scully, his hunt for truth in the darkness against her need to find faith in the light, and all of that stuff, is screen time that could have been used to make the villains of the piece more compelling, or, at the very least, more interesting.
I have been watching The X Files from season to season. And when I heard there was a film I nearly passed out. I found that I enjoyed this movie a lot. One of my favorite Television series translated wonderfully to film. Thanks to creator Chris Carter’s detailed and revealing screenplay. “The Truth Was Out There” and Mulder and Scully finally found it. The X Files had the luxury of hit the big screen, making it a perfect complement to a truly groundbreaking sci-fi tv series.Source:
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