The X-Files - I Want to Believe
Fox Mulder and Dana Scully both worked at the FBI as partners, a bond between them that led to their becoming lovers. But now they're out of the FBI and have begun new careers. Scully works as a staff physician at a Catholic hospital. Her focus these days is on a young boy with an incurable brain disease. Administration wants to give up on him. Scully, who feels a special bond with the boy, does not. Meanwhile, Mulder's focus is on clipping newspaper articles, throwing pencils into his ceiling and writing about the paranormal. Scully and Mulder are brought together as partners again when a special case requires Mulder's expertise and Scully is prevailed upon to convince him to help. The case involves a pedophile priest who claims he is having psychic visions regarding the whereabouts of a missing FBI agent.
14 September 1960, Sunderland, Tyne-and-Wear, England, UK
8 February 1946, Rycroft, Alberta, Canada
30 December 1974, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
11 January 1972, New York City, New York, USA
9 August 1986, British Columbia, Canada
18 September 1974, Detroit, Michigan, USA
13 October 1956, Bellflower, California, USA
January 25, 2016
...this essentially feels like an extended episode of the series...
October 14, 2012
Even the apologists will have to admit that this is not the X-Files movie they'd hoped for.
July 31, 2008
Lazy plotting, so-so performances and squandered ideas lead to only one diagnosis: there is no compelling reason to keep this moribund formula on a life-support machine.
November 22, 2010
The X Files: I Want to Believe ... feels like a TV episode that's been stretched out of shape, like a badly washed jumper
July 25, 2008
There may be no going back, as much as we might want to believe otherwise.
July 31, 2008
The film's best scene is when Scully announces she'll perform a stem cell transplant that afternoon and immediately rushes to Google it.
July 25, 2008
Astute readers will note that I have abstained from making cheap cracks about the I Want to Believe title, an almost superhuman feat given this movie's abundance of sheer nonsense.
July 28, 2008
The movie gets into some pretty freaky territory in the third act, but for this casual fan of the series, it's a strong effort featuring some great characters.
February 15, 2013
There was a lot of secrecy surrounding the new X-Files movie... But the film's big secret is out now: it sucks.
August 30, 2009
A sloppy, second-rate entry in the catalog of standalone X-Files adventures.
December 09, 2008
Only a fan would be inclined to tolerate this dunderheaded mystery.
January 07, 2011
Is it a stirring final hurrah for the show, wrapping up all its dangling plot threads? No. Is it an excellent evocation of what the show was, with a depth of soul and character most thrillers still don't bother with? Yes.
