The X-Files: I Want to Believe

Excellent as the first one.

Season 12 is needed and/or a movie

While this is treated like a feature film, it is just a standalone TV episode stretched to fill a ninety minute hole.Someone came up with a premise composed of no more than two sentences. Then they strung it out to fill ninety minutes. At the end (including the post credits section), all you are left with is, "So what?"

The last season of X-Files really lost me, no Mulder which just didn't really make any sense. This movie let us see what life Mulder and Scully pursued after the FBI and it answered the questions about their relationship everyone wanted to know. I loved this because it wasn't a goofy alien plot that could of been ruined with horrible effects. It was a good stand alone plot. Now I am disappointed to hear that after years of waiting for Scully and Mulder to finally be together that in the 2016 reboot they have broken it off. Hopefully not for good though.

This was a great movie I thought. I liked the message both Scully and Muller or Mullder either last name I bet is correct. Scully learned to never give up no matter how tough things get. And Mullder learned how to stop chasing monsters and live life. I thought it was a little like the show.

After waiting years for a continuation of the X-Files story Chris Carter and company chose to repay loyal fans by making this mess of a movie. With no ties to the over arching X-Files mythology, I Want to Believe seems more like a two hour episode rather than a full movie. Even at that it doesn't even hold a candle to some of the best episodes of the tv series. For people with no nostalgia for the characters, this movie offers nothing at all as there are much better science fiction/horror movies out there. The biggest mystery is why they even bothered to make this movie in the first place.

This movie is not as good as the show poor plot the 2000 or 01 x files is good

In the mytharc of every serial show, there needs to be questions that the show slowly reveals. While not all shows are obsessive at this as LOST, X-Files probably was one of the best. After one move and nine seasons, Chris Carter and Frank Sponitz had built complex and fascinating characters and teased us with questions throughout, leaving us with both fear and hope when the show ended. However, with their first X-files production in 8 years, the movie missed the point. In such a situation, the audience wants to be intruiged and drawn in. Answers should be revealed and plot should be connected. The poor viewers who have not followed the story should be drawn in enough to want to watch the rest of the series. What instead was delievered was a ripoff of the same serial killer that was the subject of Psycho and Silence of the Lambs. Very little about the mytharc, almost nothing about the climactic end to the series, and what was relvealed was done so with such abandon that is was as though the direct expected us to have figured it out. Even the characters seemed unimpressed, the witty and inquiestive Mulder was muted and the cynical Scully seemed just tired. Not for lack of acting, merely lack of good dialogue. While there is hope for a third movie, the movie needs to be strong, it already alienated all but the fanboys. All in all, the movie was nothing special, the plot followed more of the monster of the week style X-files episode and left a surprising lot up to the imagination. Considering that X-Files was designed to lead you to a conclusion and let you decide, this feels empty. As someone who owns all the seasons and first movie, I am reluctant to add it to my own collection. It moves the mytharc forward, but in few of the ways we hoped. BTW: If such a serial killer interests you, stick to the classics of Psycho and Silence of the Lambs.

I know there is a lot of talk about how this movie sucked and not worth seeing, but let my just clear something up. The movie wasn't great but also it wasn't horrible! Definetely worth watching and renting!

As an avid fan of the X-files, i was so anxious to see the latest and supposedly, greatest entry into the cannon of X-File lore. Sadly, this bit of flotsam was nothing like what it was promoted as. I have the blu-ray disc that comes with a portable copy for my ipod & I will never put it on my pod much less, watch this crap again. Awful movie, in every way. Not even worth a rental. Fight the Future was a much better film and is in my eyes, the ONLY X-Files movie currently available.