Movie Review: The X-Files - I Want To Believe - Page 2

Ah yes, but there is that whole "other" X-Files mythology — the Mulder and Scully thing (I even named two of my cats after them).

This movie acknowledges that in one short exchange where Scully reveals to Mulder "why I fell in love with you," and Mulder replies that "is why we can't be together." There is also a funny nod to current politics where the agents see pictures of George W. Bush and J. Edgar Hoover on the wall and roll their eyes appropriately.

As the movie ends, there are also hints that the two might run off together to get away from all of this — well, you know, whatever it is.

For me, as an X-Files fan, that's just not enough — even though there's a bit of a payoff when Walter Skinner shows up at the end.

Bad reviews notwithstanding, this is a decent movie. It's just not a good X-Files movie. What I'm hoping is, much like the way they muffed it on the first Star Trek film, they get it right on the next try.

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