07.29.08
X-Files - I Want To Believe
London, UK
One of the things you get to do as presenter at Leicester Square Television is attend press junkets and film previews. This morning, I went to see X-Files - I Want To Believe
Here’s my brief review:
Fans of Mulder and Scully will enjoy The X-Files - I Want To Believe. Based on the award winning TV series, I found the film exciting, fast-paced and not as ghoulish or paranormal as one may have expected. No, this was a typical “let’s get the baddies” thriller with a self-belief theme running through it. The two former FBI agents are brought back to help find a missing agent and they both find themselves fighting against, for very different reasons, officialdom and bureaucracy turning to spirituality to help them win the day. The spirtual approach was there right from the start with Billy Connolly’s character (psychic Father Joseph Crissman) leading the FBI to a crime scene. Connolly was superb in his role as was Amanda Peet who plays FBI agent Dakota Whitney.
The performances of Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny will give newcomers to the X-Files phenonmena a real sense of their previous relationship and how things develop between the two of them in this film which comes across as a superb extra-long episode.
