X-Files: I Want to Believe (7.25.08)

Six years after the show ended, Scully and Mulder return to uncover yet another weird investigation. This follows the two agents as they dig into the investigation of random people disappearing and their lead is a chain smoking Catholic priest.

If you're going to see the movie, I'm not going to give anything else away. Actually, I won't say anymore even if you won't see the movie. Being an X-files fan since the Fox channel came to people that own rabbit ears (myself included and that was roughly 1995ish) I've been an addict of the show. I wasn't really allowed to watch it when my parents first started watching it but I would always try to catch it when they weren't watching and then they finally allowed me to watch it. I've seen every episode at least two or three times. At least those of seasons 1-7. I still watched it when Mulder left and it was mainly about Doggett and Reyes but the last two seasons were not very good like the first 7 seasons were. I'd say my favorite episodes were "Home" (the one banned from television about the deformed family), the "Anasazi" three-parter and then the ones with the black ooze and the underground sewer creature.

This movie has some of the same elements of the series (campy humor, Mulder being himself and so on) but the overall film was no where near as spectacular as the original series. I liked it but at the same time was disappointed. They could have done so much more. I'm trying to save up and get the whole series and watch it again since I haven't seen it the whole way through for a long time. And I know there was a DVD that had certain episodes that were to be watched before watching this new movie but I had seen all the episodes before so I didn't bother to get it plus I'm saving up for the whole series.

Overall, I'll mildly reccomend it. I highly reccomend watching the original series first if you've never seen it. As for the hard core X-Philes, it's your own opinion on the movie. I just gave you mine.

Rating: 3 stars (out of 4)