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The X Files: I Want To Believe (2008)

UK THEATRICAL RELEASE: Aug 1st 2008 TOTAL FILM REVIEW 
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Hack away the Monster Of The Week episodes, government conspiracies and whatever that black oil/aliens bollocks was all about, and The X Files was – as Lost is – a TV show about faith versus science. Scully the Catholic sceptic versus Mulder the atheist believer. And it's this theme that forms the core of their small-scale movie reunion. Where the 1998 X Files movie (aka Fight The Future) had blockbuster aspirations – explosions, the Antarctic, a whopping UFO – I Want To Believe is almost an indie (albeit funded by Fox...), at times little more than an audition reel to see if Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny can get back into character. They can, they do, it's electric... and the only reason to see this otherwise underwhelming outing.

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