azathothpwiggins Just as FIGHT THE FUTURE was the perfect bridge between seasons 5 and 6 of the TV series, I WANT TO BELIEVE sits at the center of the fourteen year gap between seasons 9 and 10. Having moved on -apart- for several years, Mulder and Scully (David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson) must reunite in order to solve a particularly grisly new case. Director and X-FILES hoodoo guru extraordinaire, Chris Carter pays homage to everything from SILENCE OF THE LAMBS / SEVEN to HOSTEL and even FRANKENSTEIN! Toss in Billy Connolly as a psychic, pedophile priest, and we're off to the paranormal races! Amanda Peet is quite good in her role as lead FBI agent, Dakota Whitney. Don't blink, or you might miss Skinner (Mitch Pileggi) in his extended cameo appearance! Highly recommended for both fans and casual viewers of the show...

classicsoncall More than anything, this felt like an extended X-Files TV episode, but neither fitting into a myth arc story or one dealing with the paranormal or a monster of the week. One could argue that the pedophile priest was a monster and his psychic ability helped point in the direction of solving the case, but this could have been a stand alone story without Mulder (David Duchovny) or Scully (Gillian Anderson) involved in it.The dynamic between Scully and Mulder is strained as well, not a good thing for fans of the series or the principals. There's acknowledgment of the loss of Scully's son, who by this time if you go by the end of the series run, would be about six years old. I thought Scully's bonding with the young boy Christian (Marco Niccoli) with Sandhoff disease brought those feelings of lost motherhood to the fore. But there was a huge unforced error in the script when Mulder responded to Scully's statement about his sister abducted by aliens and he responded as if it happened that way. Huge, huge error, and why Chris Carter allowed that to stand is just mind boggling.If the story had to bring back another regular character from the series, I'm glad it was Skinner, but his appearance was almost superfluous and not really necessary to the story line. He did make a key save at one point, but that could have been handled by anyone else. As a fan of the series, I found something to like in just about every show, and I don't think I rated any individual episode below a '7', but unfortunately, that's the highest mark I can give this film. If you're a completist, by all means, see the film. But go in knowing that much of the flavor and dynamic of the original series is not re-established here. Which is a shame, the movie could have been so much more.

curse-of-egypt OK this may sound silly but I've seen both movies but forget which one had the bees in it. I keep seeing bees in my mind but I can't remember which one had the bees. I remember Scully was stung by one that's why I ask. I have the audio-books but so far I haven't heard mention of the bees for some reason unless I have the wrong movies

abbedafaria I don not know, are U.S. people just dumb so or lazy? Why this is in every movie? Why? Is it a lack of interest or lack of knowledge, lack of imagination? Why almost in every movie where is a Russian person, why this Russian person has totally and utterly non-Russian funny sounding name??? What is this????:"Janke Dacyshyn"Have anyone from U.S.A. ever read some Russian book, ever seen some play or ever read the news?In the case that someone sometime in the future will shoot some movie where will have to be a Russian person with Russian name:Google List of surnames in Russia!And: Why Czech speaking actress is not even dubbed? Do every U.S. person believe that any "strange" Eastern European language is Russian?Btw, Eastern European...Austria is "western" although lying on the same latitude than Czech Republic :)