The X Files: I Want to Believe
The X Files: I Want to Believe
PG-13 | 25 July 2008 (USA)
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Six years after the events of The X-Files series finale, former FBI agent Doctor Dana Scully is now a staff physician at Our Lady of Sorrows, a Catholic hospital, and treating a boy named Christian who has Sandhoff disease, a terminal brain condition. FBI agent Drummy arrives to ask Scully’s help in locating Fox Mulder, the fugitive former head of the X-Files division, and says they will call off its manhunt for him if he will help investigate the disappearances of several women, including young FBI agent Monica Banan. Mulder and Scully are called back to duty by the FBI when a former priest claims to be receiving psychic visions pertaining to a kidnapped agent.

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Cebalord

Very best movie i ever watch

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ThrillMessage

There are better movies of two hours length. I loved the actress'performance.

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Humaira Grant

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

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Winifred

The movie is made so realistic it has a lot of that WoW feeling at the right moments and never tooo over the top. the suspense is done so well and the emotion is felt. Very well put together with the music and all.

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Eric Stevenson

This sequel features Mulder being called out of retirement to work with Scully again to investigate the disappearances of a couple of FBI agents. They come across a former priest claiming to be psychic who can help them. The main problem with this film is that there's just no feeling of a big epic adventure. I didn't like the original movie but that at least gave us a bigger story. This once again played like a long episode of the show and not a particularly good one at that. There's this weird subplot where Scully obsesses over the priest psychic saying, "Don't give up".I don't know why she's so confused by this line. The acting, honestly isn't bad and it is nice to see these characters again. This takes place after the end of the show and doesn't in any way feel like a big finale, which is probably the biggest disappointment. It doesn't add up to anything big. I guess I appreciate how they were trying to be more philosophical by talking about religion. It's not terrible, but it's mostly pointless. **

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Mihai Toma

Many years after the events from the first movie, a retired and isolated Moulder is convinced by his ex-colleague, now turned doctor, Scully, to join a case which involved a weird person who claimed he had visions of various events regarding crimes. It's a movie which, as opposed to the first one which focused on extraordinary and paranormal events, like aliens, decides to base its story on a series of apparently random murders, which can be "seen" in one way or another by a mysterious character who doesn't seem to be taken very seriously by the authorities. Moulder's involvement will prove to be decisive, as he's somehow determined to find the truth about the so called psychic.As you might have guessed by now, the story isn't much, to say the least. The action isn't either, being based on something which isn't interesting or fascinating to begin with, and ends up a bit more complicated but still as least impressive. The two main actors seem to be focused on different plans almost all the time, Scully simply not knowing what to do, concentrate on her work, on their relationship, or on his case. It all seems to be a bit chaotic, although it quite isn't, but still manages to bring boredom along the way. You simply don't get the suspense or the thrill which is are a must in this types of movies.It isn't what it supposed to be, it isn't as impressive or as mind- boggling as the episodes from the series or even the first movie, fact which leaves you with an apparently normal mystery which is bound to be solved in the end, thus making the finale even less satisfying than it actually is. Overall, it's not a bad movie, but it falls deep into the average trap, not managing to get out of it with absolutely anything, even being below it at times. It failed to deliver what a true X- Files movie/episode should have brought, thus leaving the viewer with mixed or even bad feelings.

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Eddie Cantillo

The X-Files: I want To Believe (2008) Starring: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Amanda Peet, Billy Connolly, and Alvin "Xzbit" Joner Directed By: Chris Carter Review To Find The Truth You Must Believe O my god, I don't understand why fans of the show don't like this movie because I love it! Most fans of the show don't like this movie because it wasn't about aliens. And for them I have one question, who gives a crap! The show was never about aliens it was about the paranormal in general hell we didn't even see an alien until like what season four or even the first movie, plus it mostly centered on Mulder and Scully's relationship investigating the paranormal. The film is about our two agents Mulder and Scully being called for help on the FBI for a case with a series of unexplained murders with a man who is having visions. Scully is being tested with both her faith in God and science because of this man as she tries to save a boy she is nursing and save Mulder. The film does have a plot that is very interesting, because it keeps you shrouded in mystery and you never what's coming until the end. I would also like to point that it was half of the time Scully who needed the saving throughout most of the show and in the last movie. I won't spoil the ending but it's a great send off to the case. The cast and the performances from this movie were utterly good and joining our famous agents we love so much were cast members Amanda Peet, Alvin "Xzbit" Joner and Billy Connolly who I found too be good as well, especially Billy and Amanda they stood out most when it came to new characters. The movie is more in tone with the "Monster of the Week" episodes from the series and those were always my favorite. One about a man who could control electrical items, fire, a kid who made his fears come to life and my favorite a fast food clerk who was an ancient creature eating brains. A big question is answered for both Mulder and Scully in this movie do they believe or do they just want to believe? I was introduced to The X-Files by a good review for this movie and when I found the show on Netflix and the chronological order of the movies and where they came in between the shows I watched it all just to get to here and it's been a blast. And I have grown to love all the characters from the series. Nothing more for me to say to say can't for the mini series, hope after that they make a third movie and screw the haters of this movie because I'm giving The X-Files: I Want To Believe a five out of five.

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LeonLouisRicci

Chris Carter took a Big Chance with this Late Arrival. The second Big Screen Version of His Beloved TV Sensation. The Chance He took was not well received from most Fans and Critics.What the Movie amounts to is a Stand-Alone Horror Story. Its Major Motivation is Belief, not in the "Mulder" Definition, X-clusively, but the Belief in God and or Science, or in Scully's case, both. The whole Story Revolves around Belief. Belief in "Psychic" Abilities, the Belief in the God of the Bible, the Belief in Science.The Truth is that the X-Files does not Really Need to be a Movie. It Works just Fine as a TV-Show, an Ongoing Mythological Series that can Travel Down many Unseen Highways and X-plore the Unknown, the Unknowable, and the Uncanny that Results in as many Unanswered Questions as Answers.This Film is Dark. OK Dark is Decidedly X-Files. After all, Flashlights are more than a Prop for Mulder and Scully. It's not only Dark Visually but Cerebrally and Philosophically as well. What with Pedophile Priests and "Horror Show" Gruesomeness.The Acceptance and Appreciation for the Movie for Fans is Determined by a Detachment from X-Pectations. A Pre-Conceived Notion that the Film will Hit all the Buttons and Tap into the Show's most Enjoyable and Fanciful Format. The Outsider Agents who must "Fight the Future" and Uncover the Truth that will set us all Free.If the Viewer can Warm Up to this Movie's Cold depiction of more Down to Earth Terrors, where the Monsters are all too Human, it can be Intriguing and Mysterious, Terrifying and Thought Provoking. It's an Adult Movie that sans Action for Drama and offers Relationships with the Spiritual and Humanistic Concerns, as opposed to X-travagant CGI.

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