The X-Files – I Want to Believe Movie Review

Back in 2008 I wrote a short review immediately after seeing I Want to Believe at the cinema. I tried to post it somewhere, I can't recall if it was some Facebook page (I think it was) but somehow it never got posted for one reason or another.

Since then I've been sitting on it having kept a record for posterity but now it seems like a good time to try and share it again. I understand that it was pretty controversial for various reasons (no aliens was the chief complaint if I remember correctly) but I would give it a 10/10 on IMDB (I might have actually). So here it is again, 7 years later:

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I stepped into the cinema tonight having waited for the Return of Mulder and Scully since the show went off the air in 2002. All I had to go by were the two trailers that had been made available to us and a few interviews. I've always known this would not be about the aliens or the conspiracy but a single standalone story, just like how 70% or so of the show was.

The little details is what brought me back to those years I would eagerly wait for the next episode, things like the time and location on the bottom left corner of the street, the gloom of British Columbia, the danger felt but hardly seen.

And in a movie where everything is so white – it snows all the time – there is such a dark layer of impulses, of inhumanity and despair that we can't help but notice this dichotomy in the true loving relationship between the two main characters where one pursues his chaotic and impulsive life and the other still as rational and analytical as ever. I have never been a "shipper", I always was in the X-Files for the unknown, that which creates our fears and hopes. And hope certainly is a central theme to this movie. However the relationship portrayed between Mulder and Scully is so profoundly simple and genuine, it's a truly beautiful thing to see in characters you've come to accept would grow to be together like this.

But there is the demons from the past hunting them too. Whereas the ever falling snow erases traces of the past, Mulder is still looking to redeem himself for not saving Samantha. Scully is still haunted by the fact that she had to give their son away. And between them stands father Joseph and his quest to redeem himself from his past sins coming full circle to haunt him and to help unwittingly with the case at hand.

My message to Chris Carter will be the same as that of Father Joseph's and Mulder's to Scully: Don't give up. My hope will be to see more movies either like this one or like Fight the Future in the years to come.

Thank you for I Want to Believe

The X-Files – I Want to Believe Movie Review

Back in 2008 I wrote a short review immediately after seeing I Want to Believe at the cinema. I tried to post it somewhere, I can’t recall if it was some Facebook page (I think it was) but somehow it never got posted for one reason or another.

Since then I’ve been sitting on it having kept a record for posterity but now it seems like a good time to try and share it again. I understand that it was

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