Upon the initial announcement of THE X-FILES: I WANT TO BELIEVE the pseudo sequel to the 1998 film which in a more realistic view is really just a film that utilizes some of the key X-FILES characters and has no real connection to the original film other than Fox Mulder (David Duchovny), Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) and Walter Skinner (Mitch Pileggi) being a part of the storyline (and in all reality none of them are really at all integral to the storyline).    I was excited to be able to share the news with my wife whom is probably one of the biggest die hard X-FILES fan I had ever come across.  From the second it got a release date we marked it on our calendar and faithfully awaited that day as any fan would.

As the time for release grew near and no more info on the film was released beyond the faux werewolf pictures online, a very vague trailer and the information that Amanda Peet and rapper/Pimp My Ride host Xzibit both had been cast as FBI Agents… we tried our best to ignore that last little tidbit of info.  Then release week came during a midst of craze revolving around THE DARK KNIGHT and the reviews for THE X-FILES: I WANT TO BELIEVE were nowhere near kind.  Though being one that knows there are plenty of films that are critically abhorred that I still enjoyed, I went into the theater release weekend with an open mind looking to at least enjoy another Mulder/Scully adventure.

Good news is, I definitely got another Mulder/Scully adventure, bad news is they kind of showed me why I don’t want another one, and by “kind of” I mean “definitely”.  The film is just flat from the get go and even as they re-introduce us to Mulder and Scully as well as the new FBI agents and Father Joseph Crissman (played by Billy Connolly) and all I remember thinking to myself was, “didn’t they do this already??  And better?”, and as the film progressed “did they think this was a good script for a movie or were they just looking to release anything?” and as the film ended “wow, it’s over and I couldn’t be more indifferent.”