The X-Files: I Want to Believe

I saw The X Files the same day as Swing Vote and I wasn't thrilled with it either. It kept my attention but I had wanted some more scary parts, but what can you do? I never watched The X Files when I was younger, but I knew the main synopsis behind the show.

For those who don't know, the show is about FBI agent, Fox Mulder (David Duchovny), who believes in paranormal activity, but Dr. Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson), his partner, does not. Scully tries to find the reasonable explanation, while Mulder "wants to believe" that some things are paranormal. In The X-Files: I Want to Believe, Mulder and Scully are finally a couple and living together, but they still call each other by their last names, which confused me but I guess a habit is a habit.

Mulder and Scully no longer work for the FBI when the movie begins, but are asked back when a priest claims he is having psychic visions about an FBI agent that had gone missing the day before. Mulder and Scully agree to go back and help out, but as usual odd things happen and some can be explained and some can't. After a second woman is kidnapped, they start to find some connections and are able to come up with a theory and a suspect.

Anderson and Duchovny still have great chemistry from what I have seen of X-Files episodes and they did a good job. I think the material they had to work with wasn't grade-A, so their abilities were short-changed. The supporting actors were mediocre, and some were really creepy as you'd expect, especially a certain dog at the end. Yikes!

Anyways, I suggest the same as with Swing Vote, wait to rent this one, I don't know if it's worth movie theater prices, unless of course you're a die hard X-Files fan. If you are, then you've probably have already seen it.