David Duchovny,
Gillian Anderson,
Amanda Peet,
Billy Connolly,
Callum Keith Rennie
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"The X-Files: I Want to Believe" takes the always-complicated relationship between Fox Mulder and Dana Scully in unexpected directions. Mulder continues his unshakable quest for the truth, and Scully,...( read more
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DVD Release Date: December 2, 2008
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Stats: 13,724 reviews
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February 3, 2010So-so two hour tv episode. . the entire plot was even more absurd i think in retrospect. . you def did not need any xfiles knowledge prior to this.
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December 8, 2009After watching the first one I hoped they wouldnt produce a sequel. I rented this one on DVD and like I expected, dissapoiting like the first one. I think sometimes some TV Shows shouldnt be filmed.
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December 1, 2009For both this movie and the first feature-length X-Files film some ten years before, Fight the Future, the claim is made that you need know nothing about the original TV series in order to understand either movie. That's a question -- or rather a claim -- that I ca...( read more)
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September 28, 2009I'm not sure where the complaints lie.
This movie was a better than average thriller that stood on its own apart from any knowledge of the characters going in.
I think this is what made diehard fans upset...we didn't need to be privy to much beforehand to make this movie work. ...( read more) -
August 19, 2009If you have seen at least one season and know the background to the recent seasons then you will enjoy this film. Otherwise this is a comparitivlely normal movie but worth seeing the same. Thriller/Horror/Drama
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January 28, 2010A good ending to the Mulder-Scully inherent romance inside the series. Great!
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January 15, 2010Take one cancelled cult television hit, simmer 6 years, add a haphazard downer of a story and you get The X Files: I Want to Believe. A huge disappointment that will make any fan angry at the huge missed opportunity. The script barely qualifies as an "X-file" and amounts to nothi...( read more)
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January 15, 2010feels more like a long episode than a grandios movie like the 1st movie felt
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January 6, 2010It didn't feel like the real X-Files. Watch and you will judge.
Critic Reviews
August 1, 2008
Nigel Andrews, The Financial Times
July 25, 2008
Claudia Puig, USA Today
There may be no going back, as much as we might want to believe otherwise. full review
July 25, 2008
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
In the end it's all about these very full and rewarding lead characters. full review
July 25, 2008
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com
Carter doesn't try to meet or exceed fans' expectations so much as create an intimately scaled dramatic universe for his fiercely beloved characters, Dana Scully and Fox Mulder, to inhabit, circa 2008. full review
July 25, 2008
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
In not knowing who it needs to please, I Want to Believe pleases no one. full review
July 25, 2008
Colin Covert, The Minneapolis Star Tribune
Low in budget, inspiration and excitement, the film feels less like a bigger, better, widescreen reworking of the old goblins-and-G-men show than a forgotten script agonizingly stretched to feature le... full review
July 25, 2008
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail
Though the mood of The X Files: I Want to Believe remains consistently funereal, the storytelling is all over the place. full review
July 24, 2008
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
I make it sound a little silly. Well, it is a little silly, but it's also a skillful thriller, giving us just enough cutaways to a sinister laboratory to keep us fascinated. full review
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July 30, 2008i liked it in all
but it really did lack the true x files feel
i mean like where were the Aliens like in the series there were Super soilders did they like all just suddenly die or something and scully had a big additude problem in this movie i love her and mulder and that their together and all but idk they just seem so different from the old scully and mulder this movie wasn't what i thought it would be i thought it would answer alot of unanswered questions but it didnt
the one thing i did love though was that SKINNER was in this movie when i saw him i freaked i thought he was dead or something so it made me so happy to see that he lived -
July 29, 2008the weak scully/dying boy plot line aside, it was fun. nice cameo from Skinner too.
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July 27, 2008Seriously pedestrian effort. Nobody seems the little bit interested in what they are doing. Bears little resemblance to the trailblazing series and basically forgets what it was all about. If this all that can be produced with six years to prepare then lets leave it at this. Father Joe is very much a cut-rate Clyde Bruckman.
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July 26, 2008Pretty weak, Im quite disappointed. This movie is more horror (gore) than it is mystery. I love horror movies, but really dont want to see that in the XFiles. There was no excitement in the movie whatsoever, not like in old times. For old times sake I give the movie 3 stars cuz I love Scully and Mulder and the story itself was not bad, just not in an XFiles movie. If you expect anything like the show you will be as disappointed as I am, I can not recommend the movie sadly enough.
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July 25, 2008
It was so great guys!! I think that fans will appreciate it more than someone who is just watching it without having seen the show, but either way it was amazing!! I cannot wait to see it again!! ^_^
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July 22, 2008lol....i watch this x file series since i was 10years old!! what a nice movie....i cant wait to download it to pc^^
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