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I'm glad I didn't rush out and see this one in the theaters. When it came out it seemed that no one had a kind word to say about this new X FILES film. It came and went pretty quick and it just goes to show you how negative word of mouth can ruin a fantastic film.
X FILES: I WANT TO BELIEVE is a very good film. It is intelligently written, very well acted and beautifully directed. The one thing it doesn't have is aliens. With the title I WANT TO BELIEVE I think fans were expecting a continuation of the FIGHT THE FUTURE film or perhaps a wrap up to the Mulder's sister storyline that has been on going since almost day one of the series.
Instead we get an intellectual journey into belief. Believing in yourself, believing in your loved ones, believing in god, believing in the system. All these things are challenged and done in a way that only the X FILES could do.
The story opens with an FBI agent being kidnapped. As the search is ongoing and time running short a psychic is brought into the investigation after he contacts the FBI and tells them he has had a vision.
The twist is that psychic is a defrocked pedophile priest. Things get a little to weird and the FBI contact Scully who is now working as a doctor at a religious hospital to see if she knows how to get a hold of good old Spooky Mulder.
Although reluctant at first of course Fox can't resist a good psychic and we are off to the races. Through a series of inter meshed story lines the main storyline takes form and it is creepy and weird enough to warrant an X FILES classification.
Ultimately though the film ends up being about people. The priest and his quest for forgiveness. Mulder and his search for the truth. Scully as she wrestles with a sick child she has as a patient and a hospital administration that just wants to send the boy along through the system.
I WANT TO BELIEVE becomes a journey of hope and salvation and the dark corners that sometimes lurk as you search for these things.
I am always excited to witness genre fare that doesn't dumb itself down to appeal to the masses and this go around with the X FILES is anything but dumb. They actually kind of shot themselves in the foot a bit by being a little to wordy but I liked it and I'm thinking a lot of you may as well.
Don't listen to the trolls that bad mouth this one, they are wrong.
The disc features the standard fare of extras but of particular note is the FX reel that highlights all the FX in the film that actually kind of go unnoticed in the film. I didn't realize how impressive the FX work was till I watch this chapter of the special features.
That's just how wrapped up I was in the actual story in the film.
X FILES: I WANT TO BELIEVE hits the stores on Dec. 2nd. Make sure you pick it up.
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