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X-Files I Want to Believe Movie ReviewMulder and Scully Return to the Big Screen Based On the TV Series
David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson reprise their roles as FBI agents in charge of decoding paranormal and supernatural cases no one else dare touch.
Chris Carter, creator of the TV series and co-writer of the movie screenplay with Frank Spotnitz, based I Want to Believe on the popular, award-winning show, The X-Files, which ran from 1993 to 2002 – the FOX network’s longest running drama. Fox Mulder and Dana Scully Six Years LaterUnlike the first big screen version of the X-Files, released in 1998, a film that attempted to bridge the gap between seasons and answer questions the series didn’t provide, the new feature film picks up six years after the series’ end and focuses on where Fox Mulder (Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Anderson), would have been in their respective lives. Scully has returned to her medical practice, working in a religious hospital for sick children under the watchful eye of catholic clergy, while Mulder has holed himself up in a cabin clipping stories from newspapers, far away from the FBI, until a bizarre case breaks involving a physic and the call goes out to the pair to help the FBI with their investigation. Filmed more as a creature-of-the-week stand alone episode that made the show such a hit, viewers needn’t be familiar with the thick sub-plots, dense mythology or past lives of the main characters as these events are only hinted at in the movie. I Want To BelieveLike the title “I Want to Believe”, a familiar phrase taken from a poster Mulder had hanging in his FBI office for nine seasons, the movie re-visits familiar themes of struggling with a lack of faith, the complicated relationship between Mulder and Scully, as well as the quest for truth, which takes many forms in this movie. I Want To Believe, explores the inner complications of Mulder and Scully and how their lack of faith affects events in their lives, and extendedly, the lives of others. While this exploration engages even the most casual of viewers, the film lacks the element that made the TV show so popular – a good scary monster or at least a UFO sighting. The new X-Files movie entertains and the creepy plot moves at an acceptable pace, powered by a dark and eerie soundtrack provided by Mark Snow with the title theme remixed by UNKLE. However, for a big screen feature filmed six years after the end of the series, hard core X-Files fans expect more from Chris Carter and his renegade FBI agents. A good film, that could have been better if there had been more ‘X’ and less ‘Files”. Other action packed Summer 2008 movies include The Dark Knight and The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor.
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