The X Files: I Want to Believe

 (2008)

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The X Files: I Want to Believe
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  • Plot: Mulder and Scully are called back to duty by the FBI when a former priest claims to be receiving psychic visions pertaining to a kidnapped agent.

User Reviews

I've been a fan since the beginning of the show but I haven't watched it in years so suffice to say my memory isn't that great and I'll have to re-watch the greatness that was The X-files. But this movie... Read more at imdb.com

Critics Reviews


Entertainment Weekly
We just wanted to tell a really good story with characters that we love. The new film is designed to satisfy the faithful while courting a new generation of fans raised on Saw and Hostel . ... Full Review
| Jul 23, 2008
Chicago Sun-Times
The movie lacks a single explosion. The arm is found in a virtuoso scene showing dozens of FBI agents lined up and marching across a field of frozen snow. The special effects would have been possible in the era of "Frankenstein. ... Full Review

Slate
At their best, however, they were incisive character studies that tried to explain why the paranormal is so enticing, why someone might want to believe that the truth is out there. Just as Twin Peaks was superficially about talking logs and psychic dreams but more essentially about small-town betrayals and the trauma of incest, the X-Files standalone episodes, beneath the paranormal apparatus, were really about sad sacks acting out. ... Full Review

Sci-Fi Movie Page
One suspects that The X-Files: I Want to Believe - even though it is a "standalone" story and doesn't dip into the turgid waters of that show's convoluted alien invasion "mythology" - is aimed at those dedicated fans who stuck to the show right through to its bitter end. ... Full Review

newsblaze.com
Doing her best to hold this free floating, talky and tacky house of horrors turkey together, under the direction of the television series creator Chris Carter, who co-wrote the screenplay with Frank Spotnitz, is Gillian Anderson's called back to duty sixth sense sleuth Dana Scully, and she doesn't disappoint. ... Full Review

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I wanted to believe.But with his big-screen blowup of his great and weird television series The X-Files, Chris Carter has turned me into a reluctant skeptic. ... Full Article

Scully and Mulder are back.And the good news is they haven't lost their chutzpah. The unsmiling duo who was seriously serious about E.T. and other para-normal stuff, return to encounter one more bizarre tryst, as the FBI battles with... ... Full Article

NEW DELHI -- Fox Star Studios India will release "The X-Files: I Want to Believe" in India on Sept. 26, the newly formed Mumbai-based joint venture between News Corp.'s Star and Fox Studios said Friday. ... Full Article

"The film encompasses all the best things people loved about the show.It's scary, creepy, and has a good mystery.Simply put, we want to scare the pants off of everyone in the audience," Carter said in a press release. ... Full Article

"I think the best part of 'The X-Files' was that it could make you afraid of anything.They didn't tell typical horror stories or adhere to popular genre conventions. ... Full Article

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