The X-Files (aka Fight the Future) 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
Personal Review: The X-Files (aka Fight the Future) starring David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, John Neville, William B. Davis, Martin Landau
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 virus could be thought of as a similitude of sin. Sin is both a verb, and a noun. A person commits sin, (serves sin) when he (or she) breaks one of God's commandments. Sin is also an entity. If you do evil, your desire will be towards sin, and sin shall rule over you. But if you do well, sin's desire will be towards you, and you shall rule over sin. See, Genesis 4:7; Romans 6:14-18; Romans 7:14-18; Galations 5:24; 1 John 2:15-16, KJV.
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.
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