The X-Files (Movie) [VHS] starring
David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson,
John Neville, William B. Davis, Martin
Landau
One Of The Best Movies Of The 20Th Century...
The definitive American television series of the 90s comes to the big
screen with an anticlimactic whimper. And how could it be otherwise? Why
should material so perfectly realized in one medium necessarily translate
well into another? The series is crisply and thoughtfully executed in just
about every detail, but the heart of its appeal lies in the elegant handling of
complicated and evolving ongoing story lines, which is not something
movies are especially good at. The big-screen drive for closure cramps the
creative style, though it may also help nonfans get a grip on the
proceedings. We do get some invigorating thrills and chills, however, and a
more satisfying sense of the scale of an all-enveloping human-alien
conspiracy than ever before, but theres no more plot development here
than in an average two-part season-ending. FBI black sheep Mulder and
Scully have been temporarily transferred from the X-Files project to an
anti-terrorist unit to investigate an Oklahoma City-style bombing. They
uncover a new wrinkle in the Syndicate/Cancer Man conspiracy --basically
an attempt to help one bunch of (benign?) aliens fight off another bunch
who want to colonize Earth. A spectacular, ice-bound finale thrillingly
staged by series-veteran director Rob Bowman offers Mulder (but not a
conveniently unconscious Scully) his first clear look at a You Know What,
which in some quarters qualifies as an epochal event. Martin Landau offers
the agents some crucial clues, and several familiar TV faces (including the
Lone Gunmen and Mitch Pileggis indispensable Assistant Director
Skinner) turn up briefly to wink knowingly at faithful fans. --David Chute
The interesting thing about this movie is how you can watch it
without having seen the tv-series, and it still makes sense.
That said, for people on a budget, I recommend this movie,
Fight the Future, and the 4 Mythology series DVDs. If you want
more, then get the entire series, including this movie, Fight the
Future, in a boxed set, with a picture of a submarine on the
cover.
That said, if you want the DVD, I recommend the DVD that does
not have a ribbon on the top of the DVD cover. Because the
other DVD that does have a ribbon at the top of the DVD art
cover, with the inscription Enhanced Widescreen DTS... on it,
contains a FOX commercial trailer, with previews from all kinds of
movies, ending with Bruce Willis shouting obscenities, and that is
before the movie even begins...So, get the other DVD, the one
without the FOX trailer in it. For that DVD only contains the
movie, and associated features relating to the movie, Fight the
Future.
The story is basically this: An alien virus that has been lying dormant
for thousands of years has awakened, and threatens to engulf the
earth...Some knew that this was going to happen, and quietly
made peace with the aliens, hoping they and theirs would live better
than the rest of humanity in the New World Order, which is now
imminent.
The sequel to this movie has received awful reviews, and having read
those reviews, I cannot recommend the sequel to this movie. But this
movie, I do recommend. One of the nicest things about it, is that the
plot is written at an adult level, but there is no bad language, or people
getting married, just two FBI agents intelligently trying to make the world
better, while relating to each other in a professional and courteous, if
not collegiate manner. Also, Agent Mulder is very subdued, and not his
usual jovial self. He seems to be suffering from a bout of melancholy.
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