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24.07.08 # 22:24 # Review # 3 Comments
The X-Files 2 reviews have landed, and they’re disappointingly mediocre.
The X-Files TV show ran from 1993 to 2002, with the first movie released in 1998. X-Files: I Want To Believe is the only feature X-Files creator Chris Carter has ever directed, and acts as a standalone story rather than getting involved with the dense alien mythology of the show.
Here’s what the critics are saying:
“This plodding supernatural thriller wouldn’t even make a top-10-episodes list… muddled, dreary story with little resonance, no impact and… [an] absolutely limp resolution…Don’t expect any leftover mysteries from the series to even be mentioned, much less solved.”
Variety -
“…Wouldn’t qualify as a better-than-average episode of the series…There’s something to be said for returning to basics. The execution, though, is another matter…The problem is that the mystery isn’t as compelling or satisfying as it should be… As for [Duchovny and Anderson’s] chemistry, history has exacted something of a toll… Composer Mark Snow’s score goes a long way… the warming glow of nostalgia only goes so far…”
Time -
“For X-Philes only. …Mulder and Scully are back, but so much has changed that they seem like the aliens… for the uninitiated, The X Files: I Want to Believe may seem as musty and forbidding as one of those dank secrets that Mulder and Scully were forever digging up from some backyard…”
It currently holds a 31% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, compared to 64% for X Files: Fight The Future.
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I’m in Australia and I watched the movie 2 days ago.
As far as I know, it should be a sequel BUT IT WASN’T. It was a whole new story!!
When I reserved my seat in the cinema, I was really exited and my heart was beating so hard and after the movie finished, I was about to cry, seriously!
That was really disappointing not for me only, everyone in the cinema was disappointed.
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There should be another movie or season to know what exactly happened after Mulder and Scully escaped to mexico. THERE MUST BE A REAL SEQUEL!!
Chris Carter, I’M REALLY ANGRY AT YOU. I don’t know why David and Gillian accepted that story!!
forgive me for my weak English everyone…
While it was good to be with Scully and Mulder once again, the entire premise was such a departure from the first movie and most of the series episodes that I thought it should be entitled “CSI-West Virginia”. I was extremely disappointed in the movie as a whole and pretty darn repulsed by the disgustingly shocking gorry scenes. Where was the tantalizing mystery that There Just Might Be Something Out There? That escapist science fiction was what made the first X Files so much fun. What in the world was everyone supposed to want to believe? I didn’t buy it, and neither should have the actors. And, by the way, just what does it take these days to earn an R rating? It’s more than a little disconcerting to think of parents sending off their young ones to this,a PG-13 movie, and knowing just what they will see. Scrap this effort and let the fans write the sequel.
I am really saddened by all the negative reviews. I have been a fan of the show since the beginning and really enjoyed the new movie. Just sorry others didn’t.