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The X-Files - I Want to Believe
Upon taking on the mission of helping a priest that claims that he has a psychic vision around the existence of a missing detective, a FBI agents married couple who work as partners and have changed their career, struggle against solving that weird case, as they cannot know the truth from lie, the thing that brings terrible for them.
25 August 1976, Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
12 October 1975, Montréal, Québec, Canada
18 February 1963, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
13 October 1981, San Salvador, El Salvador
30 December 1974, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
28 April 1976, Usti nad Labem, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
August 30, 2009
A sloppy, second-rate entry in the catalog of standalone X-Files adventures.
July 25, 2008
There may be no going back, as much as we might want to believe otherwise.
December 09, 2008
Only a fan would be inclined to tolerate this dunderheaded mystery.
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.
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.
October 14, 2012
Even the apologists will have to admit that this is not the X-Files movie they'd hoped for.
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.
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.
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...
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.
