The X Files: I Want to Believe

Name: The X Files: I Want to Believe
Genre: Sci-Fi, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Released: July 25, 2008
Duration: 104 min
Rating: 47
Cast: Billy Connolly, David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson

2008

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Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation | Release Date: July 25, 2008 | PG-13

Starring: Billy Connolly, David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson

Summary: The supernatural thriller is a stand-alone story in the tradition of some of the show's most acclaimed and beloved episodes, and takes the always-complicated relationship between Fox Mulder and Dana Scully in unexpected directions. Mulder continues his unshakable quest for the truth, and Scully, the passionate, ferociously intelligentThe supernatural thriller is a stand-alone story in the tradition of some of the show's most acclaimed and beloved episodes, and takes the always-complicated relationship between Fox Mulder and Dana Scully in unexpected directions. Mulder continues his unshakable quest for the truth, and Scully, the passionate, ferociously intelligent physician, remains inextricably tied to Mulder's pursuits. (20th Century Fox)… Expand

Director: Chris Carter

Genre(s): Sci-Fi, Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 104 min

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Roger Ebert

The movie works like thrillers used to work, before they were required to contain villains the size of buildings. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Maitland McDonagh

The Carter and Spotnitz's credit, such weighty concerns aren't the stuff of most mainstream genre movies. But they're also not sufficiently gripping to transform a middling thriller into something truly provocative or haunting. Read full review

Empire Kim Newman

An okay paranormal mystery, with solid work from the regulars – but please Mr Carter, next time, could we have liver-eating mutants or post-modern comedy like the really good episodes of The X Files? Read full review

Dana Stevens

The problem with the movie's semisupernatural crime plot, though, isn't that the resolution is completely outlandish; it's that the outlandishness is insufficiently grounded in pseudoscience. Read full review

Marc Mohan

Worst of all, not once does Mulder answer his cell phone to hear those immortal lines: "It's Scully. There's been another death." Read full review

Michael Phillips

The story is both a muddle and a drag. Read full review

Marc Savlov

They've become deadly dull, these two once-keen buckers of bureaucratic BS, and watching them interact on screen is akin to having your pleasure centers removed by knobby little aliens whose only knowledge of mankind comes from Jack Webb's stoically unvarying television incarnations. Read full review

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RickW.

Dec 17, 2008

Excellent movie for the thinking man.