Thursday, April 4, 2013
X-Files: I Want to Believe (2008)
I watched the supernatural
“X-Files” TV series with so-so religious devotion, and the 1998
“X-Files: Fight the Future” film was well-timed, bringing back paranormal FBI
agent investigators Mulder (David Duchovny) and Scully (Gillian Anderson). Yet,
by the time “X-Files: I Want to Believe” came 10 years later, I was over the
show. So seem the actors and creator/director Chris Carter. This is a “stand-alone”
episode, not just in theme, but time. It’s more akin to “Se7en.” Not anything to
obsess over. Here, Scully works miserably at a Catholic hospital, while Mulder
clips news articles and miserably grows a beard. A perplexing case involving a
missing FBI agent, a severed arm, and a psychic criminal priest (Billy
Connolly) brings our heroes back to flashlights in the dark and grisly conspiracies,
and as the mystery is uncovered, the limits of PG-13 ratings are stretched as
is any semblance of logic: A hero hears dogs barking in No Where West Virginia
and instantly recognizes the bad guy’s lair. Really? No one here has been to
West Virginia, the snow screams Canada. Believe? My faith vanished
long ago. C+
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