Fight the Future!

I now know what "Fight the future" means. Fight the future of this series! Just look at where the show went to after the movie. I still can't believe how stone cold awful it got.

As for the movie itself, it's alright, but it's a very Hollywood version of The X-Files. It doesn't hold up to the better episodes of the earlier seasons - they're the real X-Files, and very cinematic.

I'm probably extremely biased as I'm typing this

My very first episode of the show I saw was Avatar, a season 3 episode involving a character named Skinner. But I didn't catch the bug until season 4's "Unruhe" starring Pruitt "buggy eyes" Taylor Vince. Then me and my mom got heavily into it so the film is of course a big thing. While the show does provide some answers, it also in typical X-Files fashion presents a whole new host of them. Newbies will most likely be confused while X-Philes will love it completely or like it but have issues.

Taking place between season 5 finale "The End" which saw The X-Files office being turned crispy by a fire and season 6 premiere "The Beginning", the film starts with a bombing in Dallas for which Mulder and Scully are blamed. Their investigation leads them to finding a huge corn crop in Texas with friendly bees and travelling to the land beside the land down under: Antarctica.

One goal the filmmakers set was that you would get the story elements if you were a fan but if you weren't, the film would try to recap in a sense. So while longtime fans will remember Scully's leaving behind a career in medicine, we know that already, we actually smile as we see Mulder's sunflower seeds habit continuing. Certain characters return, others oddly are absent and one character's fate is surprising for longtime fans.

Highlights are probably a little action scene involving corn crops and a really cool end scene where it takes place in Antarctica. This one shot in particular where um, "something" makes it first appearance outside is so cool I actually pressed my Instant Replay to see it again. For certain people it might get boring or slow in parts but most people won't even notice, such as me.

Probably one of the biggest sexual tension filled relationship is Mulder and Scully. It of course helps both are good looking(being a guy I obviously gravitate towards Gillian Anderson) but it proves that casting wouldn't be a problem in the film. Even some new faces appear including Martin Landau, Blythe Danner(Gwyneth's mom FYI), Terry O'Quinn(Locke from Lost) and Armin Muehller-Stall.

It's a film that definately needs a double-dip(odd I actually want that), the film's fairly bare bones, including a short EPK and a commentary(informative, but still that's it). X-Files fans will certainly get something out of it but for non-fans, it helps if you read up on the show using episode guides or watch the show otherwise you'll probably be slightly lost.

Good movie

Good movie but the box was crushed when it reached my house. Fast shipping, but the dvd was almost hanging out of the case. I give it a four, not because of it being a bad movie, but because of the quality of shipping.