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Summary: I liked this
Review: Never being a fan of the show and having only seen a few episodes - I went to this movie expecting very little and was pleasantly suprised. As an x-files novice I had absoloutely no problems following the film and found it to be so enjoyable that I started watching the show right away. I bought the DVD and was underwhelmed at the actual content. I know it claims that there is extra footage - but its mixed in with the making of featurette. Still, the movie is worth the price of the DVD and its something that I can watch even when the episodes of the show cease to be interesting. Rob Bowman's direction is spot on - creepy, nice to look at - and much better than his work on the weak Reign of Fire.
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Summary: X-files
Review: I would have to say that Chris Carter is a man of wisdom, the movie is so well planned out and the plot is always thickening.
It is surely an edge of your seat type movie with twist and turns it IS a movie you will want to see again and again for the ultimate x-files fan.
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Summary: Excellent Sci-Fi video!
Review: I must say, as a long-time X-Files fan, this movie was excellent. The very talented Chris Carter, creater of the X-Files, did a fantastic job turning years worth of shows into a feature film. I applaud his efforts, and say the X-Files movie was great! Carter's short-lived other show, Millennium, was a dissapointment.
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Summary: Great X-Files episode, just not a great movie
Review: In this extended episode of the X-Files, Scully and Mulder are re-assigned to an anti-terrorism task-force of the FBI. (The FBI has ended the mission under which our heroes kept the world barely safe from the scum of the military-industrial-alien conspiracy; now that they're no longer scoping for little green men, the least the bureaus can expect is to get a little descent work out of them.) The flick reunites us with Scully and Mulder during an horrific Oklahoma City style bombing. (The film actually opens earlier - with cavemen falling victim to a viscious creature looking much like a feral alien). When the bombing begins to look less like an act of terrorism than another act of cover-up for the UFO-conspiracy, Mulder and Scully spring to action. Actually, how many episodes of the show does that brief synopsis describe? This movie takes advantage of being a feature release (Mulder gets to curse; the special effects look better, including the mammoth explosion that kicks off the flick; the charachters joke with each other as they haven't on the show - Mulder's "panic face" being a prime example) but never excels enough past the show that spawned it. Sure, each episode tended to offer cinematic quality in characters, scripting and direction, but the flick itself looks like something off-the-shelf - they took an episode and stretched it out past an hour (this is painfully clear in the first scenes - after we see the alien finish off two ice-age cavemen, we flash-forward to modern times when a young boy similarly falls victim to a strange phenomenon. Instead of making a more interesting and compelling film, the script just throws in a bigger and heavier version of the "X-Files" we've grown to love). Rather than stake new ground that could appeal to fans and newbies alike, the story simply brings us back to our favorite principals of the UFO Conspiracy (led by "Cigarette"; John Neville also returns) Armin Mueller appears to give the film's best line, when he reassures the other conspirators not to worry about Mulder "One Man Cannot Fight the Future". Despite the cinematic effort, there's little you can say about an alien movie without a particularly interesting alien - the one here turns out to be just another long-clawed, hyper-salivary beast that leaps out of the shadows. The flick also wastes some characters you know deserve the extra effort (Terry Quinn plays a veteran agent blown to hell in the first few minutes; Martin Landau plays another one of the many conspiracy theorists who offers Mulder "the answers", but none of the answers that can be substantiated; Blythe Danner plays a federal investigator, one of many to read one of Scully's reports which are ofcourse unbelievable; the beloved "Lone Gunmen" make a suprise appearance, but a short one). The flick's biggest weakness is that it came out while the show was still on - so it couldn't do anything earth-shaking with its characters. So many conspiracies and counter-conspiracies plague both the movie and the show, that neither gets around to solving the biggest mystery of all - why did they make this movie?
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Summary: PREPARE TO FIGHT THE FUTURE!
Review: Truly an intense and scary sci-fi/phsychological/suspense thriller that captures the essence of the series in spades! For fans and non-fans alike! Grade: A+
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Summary: The Truth is Where?
Review: Who cares if aliens exist or not? I don't. Agents Mulder and Scully have stumbled upon a mysterious alien landing. They try to diffuse a bomb at the beginning of the movie, outrun a helicopter through some cornfields, fall in love, escape an alien spaceship and still don't come with anything worthy of note in this long, drawn out movie. Average cinema not to be recognized.
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Summary: The best xfiles movie ever
Review: This is a great movie and well worth watching again and again. This is a breath taking thriller that keeps you on the edge of your seat. I won't tell you much about this movie because it is a must see movie. Words cannot describe it!!
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Summary: The "Less" Files
Review: FBI Agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson), attempt to further unravel the consipracy, that had been part of the series from the start. This is basically an episode of the show made on a feature film budget. Having said that, casual and non fans, can still enjoy the movie. Since the show has a rather vast backstory, the filmmakers had to preform a balancing act, in order to satisfy fans and bring nonfans up to speed at the same time. As a long time watcher of THE X-FILES, I think they did o.k., but it asked more questions than it answered. The film was made at a time when the series enjoyed great buzz and popularity. Since that time though, things have been...not so good, lately As they start to wrap things up on television, I began to long for stuff, back when the show good. Watching the film again recently, I thought it's still solid and is better than the last season has been, with very little exception. There is plenty of standard X-file-isms throughout and it uses many recurring supporting characters to make it fun. Directed by my favorite series episode helmer, Rob Bowman, he connects the dots with skill and know how. The film is a solid effort, no more, no less.The DTS DVD sounds good and is the only way to go in that department. There are a few snipets of extra footage, not seen theatrically, nothing earth shattering though. The "Making of" stuff is just a special that aired on FOX at the time of the film's release. The DVD commentary offers a bit more substance in the way of production info. Finally the package includes an 8 page book they put together soley to repeat themselves. This review may not have been a ringing endorsement from someone who likes the show, but I like it all well enough to recommend it. Besides, its better than a lot of episodes from late in the series
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Summary: Great Movie!
Review: The movie is very faithful to the show but on the DVD it says that it has extra footage. Where is it? Oh well it was very good and even greater if you have DTS. (Awesome sound!)
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Summary: Not one for the Fans
Review: I don't know how Chris Carter thought this project could ever fly. Not only was the dialouge laughable, the acting subpar, and the scenes unevely segemnted, but this movie totally contradicts every clue the series has been insinuating since season 3. First of all. What the hell is the black oil? From watching the Show, one could conclude that it is.. 1. An intelligent alien life form, capable of human posession and transubstantiation. 2. A Substance created by our "Shadow Governemnt" that will assimilate human DNA into Alien (thereby turning humans into Aliens), when the invasion occurs. Well, The movie decides to put a new spin on this already impossible puzzle. We are now to believe that the Black oil is a substance (of unknown origin) that will impregnate a human being with an Alien fetus. Not acceptable! My guess is that they had to construct this film together under a very tight deadline. It shows. Scenes that should have been done again are left to their initial badness. The actors sound as if they're doing a cold reading of the script. Smoking man! He had one of the most dramatic entrances I have ever seen in Hollywood history (the blaring white lights, in the dark Kansas night, with the wind of the helicopter disheveling his hair, as he reaches for his trademark cigarette....Tadaah! Its him!). I thought the movie would finally start to pick up once he arrived. Nope. He just just bummed around, mumbled his usual assortment of vague facist innuendos, and puffed his Morleys. The movie could have functioned just as well without him. He did nothing, Niether Did Skinner, the Lone Gunman, or any of the show's featured regulars. Such crucial supporting characters as Marita Covarubias, Alex Krycek, and the Alien Bounty Hunter were left out of the film completely. That's why I say this movie wasn't one for the fans. If you never watched the show, you may be able to tolerate it.....Maybe If you are a fan. Don't bother. It crates more questions than it answers.
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