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#THE X FILES I WANT TO BELIEVE MOVIE#
A suspense movie needs teeth I Want to Believe settles for gums. Even when a little blood would heighten the shock of the climax, that blood is not used and the experience is weaker for it. There are plenty of chances to work in some appropriate special effects near the film’s climax, but these chances are ignored. At least Carter’s way of working keeps I Want to Believe from doing anything CGI (aside from one particularly bad scene).
#THE X FILES I WANT TO BELIEVE TV#
I know The X-Files has never been Grand Guignol, but the TV show managed a higher level of creepiness and occasional gross-outs than the film does. The movie is a stand-alone thing to keep it accessible to non-fans, but our favorite FBI agents are involved to get people to actually go see the movie.ĭirector Chris Carter lacks the eye necessary for the big screen, and he fails to take advantage of the things the big screen offers. Mulder and Scully are basically irrelevant, as is the X-Files tie in.
#THE X FILES I WANT TO BELIEVE SERIES#
The script from series creator Chris Carter and longtime collaborator Frank Spotnitz is a generic TV detective script with a few curse words thrown in to justify the PG-13/15 rating. I Want to Believe could have easily been any episode of CSI, Without a Trace, or Generic Detective Drama Series with a Generic Medical Drama subplot thrown in for good measure. The only way I can describe it is “The Further Adventures of Agent Clarice Starling and The Guy from Red Shoe Diaries, Featuring the Second Teacher from Head of the Class.” There’s nothing overtly X-Files feeling about the events of the story. Not only is it just a couple of TV episodes stuck together, it’s a couple of average TV episodes stuck together. While it’s very nice to see Mulder and Scully together again and chasing bad guys, I Want to Believe doesn’t feel like a real X-Files event. Everything about the production screams TV, from the overuse of extreme close-ups that turn Mulder’s face into a moonscape of pores, to the blatantly Canadian parents in what is supposed to be West Virginia (or Virginia, the movie isn’t very clear on where Scully works or where most of the action takes place). For better or worse, it is an episode or two of a television show screened on a larger stage, with a slightly increased budget.
The X-Files: I Want to Believe is on the big screen, and I did pay big screen prices to get into it, but I Want to Believe is not actually a movie.
Unexplained Phenomenon himself, the legendary Fox Mulder? A carrot is dangled, and Fox and Dana find themselves back at FBI headquarters, and back at work on a case.
If you need a psychic wrangler, who better than Mr. But neither of the two agents on the case works on the X-files, and while Whitney seems open to the idea of visions, Drummy is not (gee, that seems really familiar…). Thanks to the assistance of a disgraced priest and possible psychic, Father Joe Crissman (Billy Connolly), they get their first lead.
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