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Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating]
Runtime: 1 hr 44 mins
Theatrical Release: Jul 25, 2008 Wide
Box Office: $20,504,740
Synopsis: THE X-FILES(TM): I WANT TO BELIEVE is a new motion picture based on the phenomenally popular, award-winning series The X-Files. Long-anticipated, the film reunites series stars David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson under the direction of series creator Chris Carter, who co-wrote the... [More]
Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy
Starring: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Amanda Peet, Xzibit, Billy Connolly
The X-Files 2: I Want to Believe isn't a groundbreaking film by any stretch %u2014 but that it challenges the viewer to consider certain moral imperatives in a season devoted to films revolving around explosions and fart jokes makes it a daring pie
If you are going to go back to the 90s for source material, it had better come juiced with some modern day action.
Carter has with The X-Files: I Want to Believe created a mediocre mystery that relies too frequently on coincidence and screenwriting convenience to elicit genuine interest, much less "belief" in its twists and turns.
There's a very strong spiritual underside to The X-Files: I Want to Believe. It gives the story a lot of emotional weight, while also making the creepy stuff that much more disturbing.
Mulder and Scully are finally back on the case, but after six years apart, they could use a little platitude adjustment.
It's like an especially gloomy episode of the series, stretched a bit too long. And we miss the ad breaks.
This is essentially just a bog-standard (if slightly gruesome) thriller, but it's a treat to see Anderson and Duchovny together again and fans of the show won't be disappointed.
The best thrillers dig deeper than this one does, as did the best of The X Files on TV before the series ran out of steam.
There seems to be several scenes missing from the final cut - all the ones that make sense.
The movie works as a decent enough thriller, but lacks some of the X factor of the original series.
As the famous theme tune is whistled over the opening credits, listen carefully and you may hear the gentle chime of ringing tills as Mulder and Scully return for a pointless cash-in on the TV series.
This is less a case of The X Files and more like The Y Bother Files. Dull, dull, dull. Avoid.
Slow, laborious and ponderous without ever earning the right to be, I Want To Believe is a mis-fire that threatens the franchise’s very existence. The only mystery here is, what went wrong?
I Want to Believe is too little, too late: a timid stab at reviving 1990s terror tropes in an age when the fuzzy fear of sci-fi has been replaced by darker and more real stories narrated by al-Qa'eda and CIA Black Ops teams.
Even the most devout X-Files fan may have their faith tested by this snoozy addition to the franchise, which glides into cinemas with all the urgency of a Dalek with a flat battery.
The X-Files isn’t eye-bleedingly terrible. It’s just not very good; it’s an average episode of the TV series stretched to feature length.
This is the dullest, most incompetently assembled thriller of the summer... and remember, I've seen The Happening.
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