The X-Files - Fight the Future (1998)
Average Rating: 6.1/10
Reviews Counted: 69
Fresh: 44 | Rotten: 25
Results may vary for newcomers, but fans of the series will enjoy its big-screen transition.
Average Rating: 5.7/10
Critic Reviews: 16
Fresh: 8 | Rotten: 8
Results may vary for newcomers, but fans of the series will enjoy its big-screen transition.
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This 60-million-dollar science fiction suspense drama (marketed with an additional 25 million dollars), was adapted from the popular TV series The X-Files -- arriving in theaters while the Emmy-winning series was still being aired, continuing plot threads familiar to many of the series' 25 million viewers, and featuring several familiar recurring characters introduced during the previous five TV seasons. In 15,000 B.C., a strange creature attacks a caveman. Cut to present day, when a boy at the
Jun 19, 1998 Wide
May 4, 1999
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
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Cast
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David Duchovny
Agent Fox Mulder -
Gillian Anderson
Agent Dana Scully -
Martin Landau
Dr. Alvin Kurtzweil -
Armin Mueller-Stahl
Conrad Strughold -
Blythe Danner
Jana Cassidy -
William B. Davis
The Cigarette-Smoking M... -
John Neville
The Well-Manicured Man -
Mitch Pileggi
Walter Skinner -
Jeffrey DeMunn
Dr. Ben Bronschweig -
Terry O'Quinn
Darius Michaud -
Glenne Headly
Barmaid -
Lucas Black
Stevie -
Dean Haglund
Langly -
Bruce Harwood
Byers -
Tom Braidwood
Frohike
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All Critics (72) | Top Critics (16) | Fresh (46) | Rotten (26) | DVD (30)
The X-Files movie is really just a two-hour teaser for the series's sixth season. And little else.
Top CriticDark, funny, paranoid, arbitrary, humming with tamped-down eroticism and in love with all things weird: That's the good news.
Stylish, scary, sardonically funny and at times just plain gross.
As it is, pic serves up set-pieces and a measure of scope that are beyond TV size but remain rather underwhelming by feature standards.
Only two scenes in this spin-off are worth the time of followers of the TV series.
The director, Rob Bowman, is not some TV hack; his work is thrillingly kinetic.
Chris Carter had the daunting task of pleasing fans of the show, while at the same time not alienating those new to it. It's a balancing act that he mostly achieved, but in the end it's probably best enjoyed by those who are already fans.
Same TV show sci-fi on a king-sized f/x budget.
I want to believe this latest X-Files film was created for a reason other than financial reward, but I find it difficult to guess at what that reason might have been.
...lives up to the standard set by its small-screen predecessor's superb early seasons.
Excellent!
Some fans will be pleased, others annoyed and endless online discussion will be generated, while X virgins will most likely wonder what all the fuss is about.
One big, vaguely ominous blur, in which nothing really seems to be at stake except Chris Carter's future as a movie creator.
If you watch the show religiously, you've probably already seen it this weekend.
Production-wise, the film is pretty slick with large budget F/X helping the upscale television production.
... dumbed down and flattened out
Audience Reviews for The X-Files - Fight the Future
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The film will appeal to diehard fans of the series. The film has a terrific atmosphere of mystery and doubt. All the elements that made the TV show great are here and the finished product is very well done. The reason the film works so well is that they were able to keep all the key elements that made the show entertaining and great while expanding the plot to be more complex, intriguing, mysterious and horrifying. This film is a fairly good attempt for the show to transcend to the big screen. There are enough thrills to keep diehard fans interested. And people who haven't watched the show will probably enjoy the film as well. A film that full of mystery, thrills, horror and good old crime drama, this is one film that can appeal to a broad audience, and not just Horror fans or Sci Fi fans. A terrific film that has been been very well crafted, entertaining and well written, this is a film that even though flawed will definitely entertain you if you're in the mood for something different. This film is a change of pace from many of the Sci Fi / Horror films that we have seen.
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