The X-Files: I Want to Believe Reviews
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The movie works like thrillers used to work, before they were required to contain villains the size of buildings.
Read the full reviewKnowing nothing about "X-Files" is no impediment to appreciating this for the well-acted, adult piece of work that it is.
Read the full reviewOlder and sadder, Mulder and Scully are no longer sure they've got the energy to even ask if the truth is still out there. And it feels as if Carter is skeptical, too.
Read the full reviewIt feels like a wan version of the show -- one that has lost its otherworldly edge.
Read the full reviewIn not knowing who it needs to please, I Want to Believe pleases no one.
Read the full reviewA taut, well-acted, not very scary, not very hard to figure out serial-killer mystery.
Read the full reviewThe warming glow of nostalgia only goes so far, with one's level of forgiveness likely dictated by where they reside along the "X-Files" fan continuum.
Read the full reviewAn exercise in mediocrity. It's curious how little of the TV series' charm and appeal can be found in this uneven, plodding excuse for a reunion.
Read the full reviewThe problem with the movie's semisupernatural crime plot, though, isn't that the resolution is completely outlandish; it's that the outlandishness is insufficiently grounded in pseudoscience.
Read the full reviewOverall, the film plays like an improbably skewed but comparatively routine criminal procedural that would have served the original show well as an extended season opener or sweeps-week contender.
Read the full reviewCarter and his underachieving cohorts have seldom given cultists less to believe.
Read the full reviewBaggy, draggy, oddly timed and strangely off the mark, The X-Files: I Want to Believe is the generally bad-news follow-up to the show?s first feature-film incarnation, "The X-Files."
Read the full reviewThe truth is, indeed, still out there. And when Carter finds it, may he heed its wisdom: Let go.
Read the full reviewEven at its stride, "The X-Files" was a load of malarkey. But it was thoughtful malarkey and compulsively watchable. One could say the same about the first two-thirds of The X-Files: I Want to Believe before it spins out of control and into a delirious plane of awfulness.
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The Metascore® designation for this movie is 47
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