Donny Broussard Reviews: “The X-Files: I Want to Believe”

I was ready to believe, I wanted to believe, but in the end my faith wasn’t quite enough to save Mulder and Scully’s highly anticipated return to the silver screen from mediocrity. I’m not saying that the flick wasn’t worth watching, because it definitely is, but I am saying that it never quite sunk its teeth into my soul like the series and first movie did.

This time around the sexy red head and sunflower seed junky aren’t FBI agents, they are just everyday people trying to live their lives. Scully as a doctor at a Catholic hospital, and Mulder a reclusive hermit that clips newspaper articles with headlines reminiscent of the x-files he loved so much. Only when an FBI agent goes missing, agent Dakota Whitney (Amanda Peet) asks Mulder to help with the investigation, which involves a psychic pedophile priest named Father Joe (Billy Connolly). The case gets weirder when another girl with the same blood type as the missing agent is abducted, and talk of black market organ sales becomes prominent. As the investigation progresses Mulder becomes more and more obsessed with it, and Scully wants nothing more than to forget about it. Only Mulder doesn’t want to forget about it, he starts spending more and more time helping the FBI in their quest to find the missing agent, but Agent Mosley (Xzibit) doesn’t buy into the supernatural elements of the case and is constantly giving Mulder a hard time.

Will they, solve the crime, will they find the agent, will Mulder and Scully finally bump uglies, and will Xzibit go back to pimping rides instead gracing us with his terrible acting? I’m not going to answer these questions because I think the movie, while flawed still deserves to be seen without the likes of me spoiling it. I will say that the winter setting was creepy, Gillian Anderson is still sexy, Billy Connolly rocks, and David Duchovny is the king of supernatural detectives. Chris Carter is a talented director, but for some reason, maybe it just the amount of time that has passed since the last flick, but this one didn’t quite pack the punch of his previous entries into this mammoth world.

If your a fan of the series or the first flick, then by all means check this one out because while flawed, “The X-Files: I Want to Believe” was a killer film.