Mjeteconer Just perfect...

GrimPrecise I'll tell you why so serious

Platicsco Good story, Not enough for a whole film

Quiet Muffin This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

goddess_michirutenou Overall, I have grown to love this movie for the Mulder/Scully romance. There is a lot of overall character growth. Mulder and Scully have been through quite a lot over the years and they are understandably more weathered and weary when we see them in this film. There are a lot of inconsistencies...I'm looking at you Chris Charter. When the FBI approaches Scully, she's resistant and standoff-ish...understandably so. However, when she delivers the message to Mulder...in hopes helping the FBI will relieve him of his recluse-like state, she delivers the message very insistently. Mulder was reluctant to accept, but he did. Now here's where it got weird. About halfway through, Scully wants Mulder to stop helping the FBI once she sees how deeply involved he is. Huh?! We see them argue and interact more like a married couple...I mean they have been living as such for the past 6 years. I don't understand how Scully became a brain surgeon in such a short time since we last saw them. Even if she did complete her residency and such. And from forensic pathology to pediatrics is quite a stretch, but I guess it makes sense since saving sick children might be her way of dealing with her own past. As usual, at the end of the movie, despite stepping back, Scully saves Mulder's arse. I love how there is more character development between them and they reconcile at the end. It's good monster of the week story, but underwhelming theatrically. My husband commented that it felt more like an episode of CSI with X- Files characters. I know it was shot in snowy Vancouver, but it didn't play out well for a summer release---and against the Dark Knight no less. I'm glad this movie overall was the way it was though---it led to season 10!

juneebuggy This was in the theatres? It definitely watches more like a two part episode of the TV series than an actual film. The story itself is okay, entertaining although less woo-woo, out there sci-fi than I was expecting and more of a police procedural, find the serial killer which we see on just about every second show on cable TV nowadays.Anyways it wasn't terrible, David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson act there asses off, fully embracing Mulder and Scully (when did they get all in love and have a baby?) Billy Connolly is suitably creepy as the pedophile priest who claims to be having visions, Amanda Peet is an FBI agent who knows of their history with woo-woo cases and brings them back into the game to aid in the investigation into a group of missing women, one of whom is an undercover agent. I always struggle with Peet in the dramatic roles because she is so hilarious as a comedic actress.The mood throughout this is dark and cold, no cornfields here but lots of bleak snowy landscapes, snow covered highways, cars in snow banks, empty white fields so that I was continually reminded of the FX series Fargo. -Filmed in Pemberton, MT Currie (Lil-Wat nation) and Vancouver as Wisconsin.Not sure what to make of the weird post-credit sequence with Mulder and Scully all vacationey, in a rowboat in the middle of some tropical ocean, waving at the camera? 4/4/16

Davis P The X files: I want to believe is a very interesting film to watch. It does feature a pretty good mystery, i will give it that. And the acting was good and enjoyable, of course David does well. The execution of the plot is pretty good, even though some scenes do drag a little bit. Some of the images in the film are rather disturbing, I'll just leave it at that, I don't want to give any spoilers away. This film could've been a good bit better I'm not going to lie about that. Even though it could've been better doesn't mean that it's completely not worth watching though. I would say that if you are or were a fan of the X Files television show, then you most likely will not be disappointed with X Files: I want to believe. The ending, when they finally come to a conclusion about the mystery at hand, is pretty well done and satisfying enough, at least it was for me. Overall I have to give this film a 6/10, the rating could've been higher, but some scenes did in fact drag, and the script could have been a little more developed.

FreakNumberOne I guarantee you, once the movie's over, you will have already forgotten most of it. There is such a disconnect between the core cast, the murderer, and the murderer's victims, it's like they're all in different films. There are no stakes, there's no real villain. Billy Connolly's character contains the heart of the film, which is why it's especially bizarre that in the denouement scene we're simply told "Father Joseph died." Mulder and Scully's constant shifting from believer to skeptic and back again had already gotten old by the end of the TV show. 10 years on, with the zeitgeist having shifted noticeably away from conspiracy and supernatural wonder, Mulder needs to re-establish what it is that he believes, why he believes it, and why "belief" is a worthy pursuit at all. This movie seems to want to tackle those subjects but fails. It's competently shot, and I suspect that a lot of it's problems stem from editing and rewrites, but this film is a near total failure, both as a good story, and even as fan-service. Think of it as The Silence. Unless you're looking directly at it, you'd never know it existed at all.