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The X-Files - I Want to Believe
Driving by their deep will of helping a priest, a FBI married agents, who have changed their career and left investigations, Fox Mulder and Dana Scully, accept and return to work together again, in order to help the priest claims that he has a psychic visions around the place of a missing detective, the thing that brings terrible for them and risks their life.
8 February 1946, Rycroft, Alberta, Canada
14 September 1960, Sunderland, Tyne-and-Wear, England, UK
8 October 1977, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
26 May 1975, Hennessey, Oklahoma, USA
13 October 1956, Bellflower, California, USA
9 May 1958, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
24 November 1942, Anderston, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
22 July 1964, Amersham, England, UK
25 August 1976, Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
30 December 1974, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
4 March 1970, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
28 April 1976, Usti nad Labem, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
7 August 1960, New York City, New York, USA
18 September 1974, Detroit, Michigan, USA
October 14, 2012
Even the apologists will have to admit that this is not the X-Files movie they'd hoped for.
August 30, 2009
A sloppy, second-rate entry in the catalog of standalone X-Files adventures.
November 22, 2010
The X Files: I Want to Believe ... feels like a TV episode that's been stretched out of shape, like a badly washed jumper
January 25, 2016
...this essentially feels like an extended episode of the series...
January 07, 2011
Is it a stirring final hurrah for the show, wrapping up all its dangling plot threads? No. Is it an excellent evocation of what the show was, with a depth of soul and character most thrillers still don't bother with? Yes.
July 28, 2008
The movie gets into some pretty freaky territory in the third act, but for this casual fan of the series, it's a strong effort featuring some great characters.
February 15, 2013
There was a lot of secrecy surrounding the new X-Files movie... But the film's big secret is out now: it sucks.
December 09, 2008
Only a fan would be inclined to tolerate this dunderheaded mystery.
July 25, 2008
There may be no going back, as much as we might want to believe otherwise.
July 25, 2008
Astute readers will note that I have abstained from making cheap cracks about the I Want to Believe title, an almost superhuman feat given this movie's abundance of sheer nonsense.
July 31, 2008
Lazy plotting, so-so performances and squandered ideas lead to only one diagnosis: there is no compelling reason to keep this moribund formula on a life-support machine.
July 31, 2008
The film's best scene is when Scully announces she'll perform a stem cell transplant that afternoon and immediately rushes to Google it.
