The X-Files: I want to believe
The X-Files: I Want to Believe
Directed by Chris Carter. With David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Amanda Peet, Xzibit, and Billy Connolly.
100 minutes
The simple take on the strangely delayed second X-Files movie is that it rolls out as nothing more than an elongated regular TV-like episode. Creator Chris Carter, answering the complaints of many, has purposefully tossed away the dark and swirly central mythos that both bewitched and bedeviled the show's legions of loyalists in it's TV years (1993-2002), but the film plods along like a procedural despite the plots hints and detours into spiritual questions and ethical dilemmas. It's a sadly de-saturated exercise, all but killing the chance for another movie to follow.
