Every one knows The X-Files right? It's a well-known television series and is mainly about beliefs of the existence of extraterrestrial life.
In the series, FBI agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) are investigators of unsolved cases involving paranormal phenomena. Mulder plays the role of the believer, having faith in the existence of aliens and the paranormal, while Scully is a the total opposite, initially assigned to debunk Mulder's work. As the show progressed, both agents developed a close romantic friendship.
Reminder: If you haven't watched The X-Files: I Want To Believe and you don't want to spoil your X-Files movie outing, read no further. Feel free to read the other posts.
The X-Files: I Want To Believe is the 2nd movie based on the series, after the first film in 1998.
Actually, the movie doesn't feature the conventional X-Files drama series. If you're expecting to see weird-looking aliens and bizarre paranormal phenomena, you won't find them here. It's totally a turn off for those who have anticipated weird hideous creatures or Martians.
Perhaps the inclusion of this famous alien from Alien would have been cool!
Anyway, maybe the movie should be renamed, actors revamped and it'd still be a decent, creepy crime show. Initially I wasn't interested to watch because I thought there would be some scary weird alien plus ghost movie but it turned out to be some crime investigation movie.
In the movie, Mulder and Scully aren't FBI agents anymore. Scully is now a surgeon while Mulder hides away after the agency charged and kicked him out on unexplained, bogus cases. Mulder even grew a beard, a bushy one.
The movie started with 2 scenes switching back and forth. One of the scenes was a search on the snowy ground by the FBI led by a psychic. With the help of the psychic, the FBI found an arm buried under the thick snow. The other scene was an abduction of a woman who fought back with a garden tool, leaving scars on the attacker.
The kidnapped women turned out to be an FBI agent and the psychic, a priest named Father Joe (Billy Connolly) believes that she's still alive. Therefore, the FBI tried to convince the former X-Files agent, Mulder, to help out with the search of their colleague.
From there onwards, it gets weirder or more sickening by the minute. More women were kidnapped and kept away at an isolated animal farm. Remember the attacker during the opening scene? The arm found under the snow was his arm. So, at the farm, there were Russian doctors working on the man by attaching various body parts on him.
Besides that, the attacker is married to another man. Totally gay-ness! His husband (or wife), or whatever his status are, is trying his best to save his partner. Throughout the movie, the attacker was just lying down and was being treated by the doctors.
In one of the scene, the attacker was shown with an attached female arm. But I don't understand why does he use women body parts? Why not men's since he is a man?! And remember the kidnapped FBI agent? The intention was to use her body for the attacker's head. Gosh, he wants a female body! Know why? It's because his partner wants a hole to f***! So NOW I understand why they only want women body parts! Naughty naughty!
Some of the scenes were very sickening. Gruesome scenes here and there. The worst part was when the doctors were getting prepared to transfer the attacker's head. And they completely detached the head from his body! Can you believe it? How can a single head, without blood circulation and a body, survive like this? Perhaps the freezing of the head helped? Anyway, if a head can survive in reality, guys can easily get themselves a female body and vice versa!
Okay wait a minute, you guys out there stop thinking about getting boobs, be straight! And if you girls want a penis, forget it!
The storyline of The X-Files: I Want To Believe wasn't like the usual X-Files on television. But the subtitle 'I Want to Believe' totally suits the movie because I really want to believe that the movie is an X-Files series. But too bad, I don't believe it now.
Perhaps it could have been more relevant if it was a CSI film series.
Noobie Rating: 2/10 (Don't waste your time and money)
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