Amazon.com: The feature film The X-Files: I Want to Believe is a satisfying if unspectacular installment in the X-Files series, taking place an unspecified time after the show's nine-year television run. Former agent Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) is now a doctor, while Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) is being hunted by his former agency and living in seclusion. He and Scully are summoned back by a case involving a missing agent and a former priest (Billy Connolly) who claims to be able to see clues to the agent's whereabouts psychically, though his initial search turns up only a severed limb. Don't expect the usual cast of characters; the FBI has completely turned over (except for the George W. Bush portrait), and the only reason Scully and Mulder are back is because agent Dakota Whitney (Amanda Peet) remembers his success on similar cases involving the unexplainable. Don't expect the same rogues' gallery either; unlike the previous X-Files feature film, which was inextricably linked to the series' convoluted mythology arc (and served as a bridge between the fifth and sixth seasons), I Want to Believe is a stand-alone piece that makes use of the series' roots in horror/sci-fi and moody Vancouver, B.C., locales. Also unlike the previous film, which was almost self-consciously shot for the big screen, this film is on a smaller scale, like a double-length episode of the series. But it's still a good reminder of the creepy vibe that hooked fans for years. And the relationship between Mulder and Scully? It seems to have resumed pretty much where it left off, at least when you take into account the long period of separation. But stick around for the end-credit sequence to take in all the possibilities for the future. --David Horiuchi
What the heck were they thinking? ^ This was the most boring X-Files anything that my husband and I had ever seen! My husband was deployed, and I bought this and waited to watch it with him when he came home on leave...X-Files had always been his favorite....the look on his face as he watched this horrid excuse for a movie...made me want to cry. I took the disc out and put in Stargate SG1, which I didn't like at the time...and eventually became addicted to.
How wrong is it when not only do you bore your husband to tears with a bad movie while he's on leave from a deployment...but when that movie also destroys his view of this favorite show of all time? Now he won't even consider watching X-Files...which really saddens me because I had also bought him all of the seasons and the other movies as well...
Underappreciated film with bad rap ^ "I Want to Believe" is, first and foremost, a wonderful X-Files film. True, it's not as far-out as most fans were expecting, but that was never the intent for this one. This film was about putting faith on trial...faith in science, faith in the paranormal, and faith in one's self. This film was meant to stare fear in the face...fear of being wrong, fear of being alone in a messed up world full of monsters. This one was about the trials we all face at some point, and about the courage it takes to stay the course. Great film, despite the fact that the paranormal factor was much more subtle than usual X-files fare. It doesn't deserve the reputation it's been given, not by a long shot.
X-Files ^ I don't consider this part of X-Files history. It's a bad movie and that's a shame.
Excellent DVD X-Files I Want to Believe ^ For all X-file fans, this was a long time in coming. We were all starved for another dose of anything x-file-related. It was a bit of a disappointment because there was not much about the history of the x-files and there are still so many questions or issues left unaddressed from the series. I think there should have been some reference to Doggett and Reyes who continued working with the x-files at the FBI. However, I was pleasantly surprised and delighted to see D.A. Skinner incorporated into this movie although it was for too short of a time period; he needed more involvement and screen time. This was also not really an x-file type plot, but still a good movie and interesting storyline. But this was a stand-alone movie and those not familiar with the x-files tv series could still follow it and be entertained by it.
"I wanted to believe" ^ I will always and forever watch the X files movies as long as it is Skully & Mulder. That being said, I was let down by this movie. I really appreciated the scare factor as well as the extra terrestrial aspect along with the government conspiracy. Those three things were blazingly missing from this movie. This movie reminded me more of those episodes that weren't really related to any mytharc, but a general "oh that's what it was" episodes that have some mystery, but not much more.
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