The X-Files: I Want to Believe
2008
**½
Director: Chris Carter
Cast: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Amanda Peet, Billy Connolly, Alvin "Xzibit" Joiner, Mitch Pileggi, Callum Keith Rennie, Adam Godley
The second X-files film comes ten years after Fight the Future and six years after the television series wrapped up. Coming this late, the big screen spin-off should offer something spectacular, but this is sadly nothing more than a very ordinary episode stretched over 100 minutes. Mulder has a become recluse and Scully has delved into medicine, but they now agree to help their former employer to find a kidnapped federal agent. Their best clue is a psychic ex-priest/convicted pedophile, but are his visions to be trusted? The script reduces the supernatural elements to a minimum and ends up looking like an episode of Medium, or one of the formulaic serial killer movies from the recent years. During the course of events, Mulder and Scully get to rekindle their romance, but the sparks don't exactly fly. They share a scene in bed fully dressed, that's all.
