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August 26, 2008
X-Files : I Want To Believe
It's easy to forget the impact that the X-Files made when it first appeared on TV: it was fresh, slick, intriguing, had an amazing on-screen chemistry between Mulder and Scully, had the promise of a long term arc and it was genre! Unfortunately the long term arc didn't deliver and the series trailed off into mediocrity. Still, the first three series were excellent.So, a new X-Files film. First of all I'm surprised that the film was made after such a long break since the last film, but someone obviously thought there was a market. What does it deliver? Well, just a long, not exactly brilliant, X-Files episode. With Billy Connolly. Whilst it has an interesting bleakness it all felt a bit down and mundane. We get to see Mulder and Scully in bed together! We get to see Mulder's hermit like post X-Files existence! We get to see Scully trying to do something worthwhile as a doctor! We get to see Billy Connolly being scary! We get to see a severed head!
All a bit, hrm, okay. Not much to say really.
Perhaps it should have been a TV special?