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| Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2008 2:22 pm Post subject: THE X-FILES; I WANT TO BELIEVE (2008) |
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Category: Drama/ Thriller/ Suspense/ Action
Contains: Blood/ Crying/ Emotional Scenes/ Severe Human Parts
Summary:
After ten years of not working with the FBI; Scully and Mulder were asked to participate in the new investigation involving a kidnapped FBI agents and a pedophile psychic priest. What they find is a group of experimental Russian scientist who is doing illegal and inhuman stem cell research. Despite of their success in recreating life and the discovery of the key to unlocking the mystery of human regeneration. The FBI has to hunt them down to save an innocent FBI agent before it’s too late.
Review:
This film is a disappointment. The X-Files series is a great success and the subject disclosed in the series is extremely fascinating. However, this film lack of consistency and leaves a lot of loopholes. It focuses more on the relationship between Scully and Mulder more than the mystery/case itself. Which makes the film more of a drama with a twist then like a regular X-Files episode which deals with obscurity.
What disturbs me the most about this second X-Files feature film is a lot of Scully and Mulder’s lines are repeated questions between them; which they keep on asking each other “what it means.” When they clearly know what is means and it was self explanatory. Also, they did not go into much details about the interesting plot in the movie. Which is the illegal stem cell research that the Russian scientist/ surgeons is doing. However, that’s their downfall. Because whoever paid to go see this film is most likely to be one of the X-Files t.v. series fan. There isn’t much of an “X-Files” here, except a scientific breakthrough: the Russian scientist successfully able to attach one’s head on to a different body. But why they are keep kidnapping female to put on a man’s head is remain unknown.
The title “I Want To Believe” explains the film. It’s not so much about the “X-Files” as it is about Mulder and Scully trying to make believe in themselves and deal with the subjects they have seen over the years. “The darkness” is what Scully keep on calling the demons and the unknown from the X-Files that they have worked on the pass ten years.
One question, were Scully and Mulder fired by the FBI? In the beginning of the film, they talked about the option where if Mulder help the FBI out about this case, they will drop all the charges against him. What charges? And is Scully fired, too? Alright, even if this film is about the relationship about Scully and Mulder; their relationship is STILL unclear. In one of the beginning scene, Scully walks into Mulder’s house and looked surprise and seems to not recognize his place. Then , in the later scene they talked about “their” son “William.”(Who is William and when did they have a son?) And in another scene, it shows that Scully and Mulder were in bed together and she was wearing a p.j; which hints that she have clothes there, which also means that she lives there.
The film is not as excellent as I have hoped; it’s in no mean complete. They left a lot of loopholes and questions behind. And when the movie ended, it was a relief.
Rated: 2 out of 5 stars.
****If you are a X-Files fan, see it but don’t expect much.****
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