FILM
“X-Files: I Want to Believe”
Rated M, 104 minutes.
Reviewed by Vic Rebikoff

IT has been 15 years since the popular series “The X-Files” was on TV, with its entertaining sci-fi theme of aliens and the paranormal, as well as its haunting message of “The truth is out there”. And it’s been 10 years since the release of the first “X-Files” movie.
In this latest movie, “X-Files: I Want to Believe”, Mulder (David Duchovny) and Scully (Gillian Anderson) are no longer FBI agents. He is a recluse living in a country home (still cutting out newspaper articles on the paranormal), and she works as a doctor in a Catholic hospital.
The disappearance of a female agent causes the FBI to approach Scully in order to find Mulder and seek his assistance on the case, as they believe her disappearance is of a paranormal nature. The FBI has also enlisted the services of a convicted pedophile and priest (played surprising well by Billy Connolly) who has visions of the locations of the missing bodies-including their body parts.
Despite a landscape that is set against the stark beauty of snow-covered settings, the movie is quite gruesome, not for the faint-hearted and disappointing without the usual sci-fi theme.
Verdict: Disappointing. 5/10.