I want to believe:

A film based on one of the most iconic and successful SciFi series ever isn't this bland, uninspired and lazy.

Billy Connolly was pissing his pants laughing when he cashed in his cheque for this film.

Chris Carter suffered from a spontaneous, temporary attack of Lobotimus Interruptus when he conceived this.

This is not the swan song of one of my favourite series ever.

I wanted to believe but Connolly hams it up something rotten as Father Jo and makes it difficult to have faith.

Made 10 years after the first movie and 5 years after the TV series finished, it's an okay if pointless and instantly forgettable entry in to the cannon.
The only thing this film has got going for it over it's predecessors is the extra budget they used to cultivate Duchovny's lovely, clearly stuck on, Swedish fisherman's beard.

Part of the "March Movie Madness" challenge.

Watch and learn. This is how NOT to do it. Way to butt plug one of the most popular series ever made.
This horrendous pile of garbage managed to piss me right off... where's that "I HATE YOU!!!!" list...

This film had the misfortune of being released the week after The Dark Knight in 2008.
Having just finished re-watching every episode of all 9 seasons and Fight The Future, I was amazed at how dark and different tonally this feature film is in comparison to what's come before.
For the uninitiated there isn't much to bring you into the fold, there are several mentions of key developments that occurred over the 9 years the show originally ran.
For the most part, this feels similar to Crimson Rivers or Kiss The Girls. There's some psychic shenanigans, taught suspense and a dash of body horror toward the end. Throughout all of this is the whole Mulder and Scully relationship, some chin scratching musings about faith and a pedophile joke too.
A very dark entry in the world of X-Files. Similar in that respect to it's sister show Millennium.
Well worth a watch in my opinion.

The X-Files: I Want To Watch One of The Good Episodes of X-Files Like Fire or Squeeze or Ice Rather Than This Fairly By The Numbers Tale Relying on Nostalgia To Hold Everything Together Instead of Something Like Oh I Don't Know A Decent Plot

This film was made in 2008. I'm willing to believe this, but I can't believe this. If it was shown in the seventies, I could have been thrilled for a second now and then....

Neither suspenseful or very funny, this surprisingly dull X-Files movie contained none of the the original show's charm.

FBI consultant and paranormal expert, Hank Moody vs. gay Russian organ transporter, Lew Ashby.

I am wholeheartedly an x-phile but Fight The Future is far better than this. I'll still watch the shit out of a third film though if we're ever gifted one.

Part of the "March Movie Madness" challenge.

Watch and learn. This is how NOT to do it. Way to butt plug one of the most popular series ever made.
This horrendous pile of garbage managed to piss me right off... where's that "I HATE YOU!!!!" list...

This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.

Publiqué el 01/03/2010:

Lástima que una gran serie (con una pasable 1a película en medio) acabara tan lamentablemente con "The X Files: I Want to Believe" (2008)...
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The X-Files' strengths lied in its standalone episodes which had a good hit rate and at their very best were funny, inventive and creepy by turns (or sometimes all at once). It's sad then that this, essentially a feature-length standalone episode is so dreadfully dull, which isn't helped by the Mulder-Scully relationship being so incredibly uninteresting by this point. In fact, the film would've been improved by focusing on Agents Doggett and Reyes. The best X-Files 'film' remains the season 6 episode 'Triangle', every bit as cinematic as this actual feature film isn't.

This would have made a pretty great episode of The X-Files. Shame it was a movie.

I wanted to believe but Connolly hams it up something rotten as Father Jo and makes it difficult to have faith.

Made 10 years after the first movie and 5 years after the TV series finished, it's an okay if pointless and instantly forgettable entry in to the cannon.
The only thing this film has got going for it over it's predecessors is the extra budget they used to cultivate Duchovny's lovely, clearly stuck on, Swedish fisherman's beard.

This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.