By insisting that all plot details be shrouded in secrecy, I worried that 20th Century Fox and X-Files creator Chris Carter were merely providing a likely excuse for their decision not to offer advance press screenings of the new film, a usual sign of a studio’s lack of confidence in a product. If this had been their reasoning, it would have been unnecessary, as X-Files: I Want to Believe is not a bad film and is far better than others that have received press screenings in the past.
One wonders, however, if keeping story synopses under wraps was all a marketing ruse, as the film does have a distinct been-there-done-that feel, and is a revolution neither in the world of moviemaking nor even in the fictional universe of The X-Files. At least one or two details beyond “it snows and Xzibit is in it” couldn’t have harmed us.
The film opens with a very ambiguous murder scene, apparently still on plot-hiding autopilot from the...



















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