- Release date: 2008
- Runtime: 104 min
- Genre:
- Starring: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Amanda Peet, Billy Connolly ... See all
- Director: Chris Carter
- 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
Overall great for fans and good for the casual moviegoer
Jul 19, 2008
potterpot
Jul 19, 2008potterpot
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 .
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| Jul 23, 2008Chicago 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.
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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.
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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.
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News
The X-Files: I Want To Believe
nytimes.com –
2008-09-28
The X-Files: I Want to Believe
indiatimes.com –
2008-09-28
'X-Files' goes to India on Fox Star
hollywoodreporter.com –
2008-09-19
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
'X Files' movie in India on Sep 26
msn.com –
2008-09-18
"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

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