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Picturenose’s James Drew wanted to believe but found little to celebrate in Mulder and Scully’s big-screen return…So, with the passing of all the fin de siècle angst that in to no small degree provided the inspiration for Chris Carter’s (at times) seminal sci-fi/horror show The X-Files, are we left with very much to maintain the mood ten years on from the first film The X-Files: Fight the Future (1998) and six years after the end of the TV series?
I’m afraid not. Despite the excessive gushing in the critics’ press pack and elsewhere about ‘top secrecy‘ and the new film being in the tradition of the series’ very best stand-alone episodes (ie, those that weren’t about alien conspiracy theory) , I Want to Believe emerges as very little more than a desultory, tacked on mess.
Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) have sought pastures new with the passing of time – Scully has really got her skates on since leaving the FBI and is once again a caring, brilliant (naturally) physician/surgeon. Mulder, on the other hand, has seen his ten years of spooky investigations disowned and disgraced by the Feds. What’s more (probably much more, for X-Files geeks still marking the passage of their own lives via the romantic associations of fictional FBI investigators), the pair are now co-habiting. Oo-er, missus…
Of course, the call back to arms has to come, and come it does, with the kidnapping of FBI agent Monica Bannan (Xantha Radley) and the intervention of Father Joseph Crissman (Billy Connolly, amazingly enough) who is claiming to be having visions both of the perpetrators and the victim. His ‘second sight’ leads investigators to a severed arm in a Vancouver ice field – but it’s a man's limb. The plot, naturally, thickens…is Father Jo for real or, given his sordid past involving sexual favours taken from choir boys, should he be considered a suspect? Scully convinces Mulder to take the case – but he refuses to work alone…
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