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Movie review: ‘X-Files’—I still believe

Posted by Frank Petrie Apple ico Jul 26, 2008 at 5:33am

If you’re a fan of The X Files, then Christmas came early this year. If you don’t know The X Files, then in for a treat, a multi-layered whodunit.

As I am a member of the former camp, I can tell you that this should fill the void that The X Files left behind. Chris Carter (creator, director, co-writer) has created a story line that finds Mulder and Scully living deep in the middle of nowhere. They’ve been long jettisoned by the FBI years ago. Scully is now a doctor in a catholic hospital wrestling with her faith. Mulder stays at home in his office, walls covered with newspaper clippings and a picture of his sister, still wanting to believe. But his inner struggle is whether or not he’s been chasing shadows all these years.

The story shifts into gear when the FBI find themselves reluctantly in need of Fox Mulde’s expertise. Roughly a dozen people have been dismembered and a former priest/pedophile Billy Conelly) is having visions of the victim’s murders.

Simultaneously, Scully is trying to save the life of a young boy with an almost assuredly fatal disease. But the priests who run the hospital want to send him home to die.

From these two incidents, questions arise in Fox’s belief in the paranormal and Scully’s belief in the Catholic Church.

If you’re looking for hunting for aliens, this isn’t it. Instead, this one of the episodes about the paranormal. Except this time Carter has the time and budget to flesh out the episode.

I know that when this is released on Blu-Ray, it’s going into my collection that same day.

X-Files: I Want to Believe is rated PG-13 for violent and disturbing content and thematic material. Running time: 140 minutes. Macsimum rating: 8 out of 10. You can check out the film’s trailer on the QuickTime movie trailer site.

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