My wife and I recently went to a screening with some friends of the latest addition to “The X-Files” franchise, “The X-Files: I Want To Believe“. Yes, I know – I heard about the lukewarm reviews regarding this film. However, I had fond memories of watching this dark and conspiracy-laden series, enjoying how they could create some truly memorable, if not downright creepy, television moments (Thinking about the Peacock family from the episode “Home” still makes my skin crawl). So, I must admit that some pangs of nostalgia drove my interest in wanting to take a chance with this film. Besides, for both our couple-friends and my wife and I, this was a night of dinner and entertainment without the kids, so we were all pretty much just appreciating an adults-only night out regardless of what we could expect from this film.

After a pleasant dinner at one of the local eateries, we walked over to the cinema to hopefully enjoy this reunion with Mulder and Scully. I won’t go into the details of the plot since there are enough reviews out there that summarize sufficiently the basic storyline of this film. But as the title of this entry and corresponding image implies, despite the rather low expectations all of us had going in to this movie, I have to admit this film really did leave me wondering what was the point of it all.

Granted, the performances by Gillian Anderson (Dana Scully) and David Duchovny (Fox Mulder) were spot-on; in fact, it was very easy to forget soon into the film that it’s been over 6 years since these actors played these now famous roles. And it was obvious at times that writer/director Chris Carter understood the need to create tense moments in the film. Click here to continue reading »”The X-Files Movie – I Really Wanted To Believe”