X-Files: Fight the Future

Pros: Spin-off from TV show, Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny, involved story
Cons: none

In the most underhanded move ever made by a television show, Chris Carter (the creator and producer of the X-Files television show) decided to make an X-Files movie. The catch to this whole thing, is that he made it a continuation of the television show ...

Pros: story, acting, effects
Cons: not really accessible to non-fans of the series, bombing scenes might be disturbing

In preparation for the new X-Files film due out this summer, I thought I'd check out the last time our two heroes bent on exposing government cover-ups graced the silver screen. The movie The X-Files: Fight the Future was not just based on ...

Pros: Intriguing story, wonderful characters, very suspenseful
Cons: None

So I’m an X-Files junkie. I love the show, the movie (still waiting for the second one), and I’ve got a soundtrack for the show too. The X-Files is just so wonderful and captivating, and I’m always just dying to see what happens next (well I’m not ...

Pros: Suspenseful, good sense of adventure.
Cons: Confusing; relies too heavily on the show; melodramatic.

"The X-Files: Fight The Future" poses a dilemma since it's not so much inspired by the popular show, as it is an extension of it. Not being a fan of the show, am I qualified to view the film, since I have little background on the basic story? Yes, ...

Pros: great characters, interesting story, great music and effects
Cons: part of an overly complex mythology, hard to put faith in the revelations

The X Files had just finished up its fifth season when the movie Fight the Future hit theatres. Half a season past the series’ half-way mark the movie carries on the conspiracy theory mythology, and takes the alien threat to the ...

Pros: Good acting, nice character development, interesting story
Cons: Often convoluted, Somewhat problematic in the overall mythos

I've long said, to any who would listen, that the main problem with "The X-Files" was that creator Chris Carter did not know from the beginning where the show was going. That is to say in his mythology episodes for the series, he did not know on day ...

Pros: X files series stars and some of the other series characters in cameo roles.
Cons: Tries to straddle the new audience old audience fence without much success.

I expected a really good X Files episode idea lovingly salted away for the future but this was not much like the series at all. The paranormal sciences agency has been shut down and the two agents from the series are now garden variety FBI agents and ...

Pros: Everything
Cons: You may have to watch it more than once

I remember when the X-Files debuted on Fox a few years back. I watched about four or five shows and I really didn’t get much excitement from it, so I stopped watching the show. Than in the summer of ’98, the X-Files Movie was...

Pros: Hello, it's X-Files!
Cons: too much Hollywood, not enough substance

Anyone who has read my editorials with the X-Files theme knows that I am a huge fan, otherwise known as an X-Phile. (If you haven't read them, go do it! They're all linked to on my member profile!) Because I'm such a big fan, perhaps I was expecting a...

Pros: Actors are comfortable in their roles but not yet tired of them; fast paced and visually striking
Cons: The plot has holes . . . big holes.

Turning successful TV shows into movies is always a rather dicey business. The only television franchise to have really made the leap to the bigscreen with much success is "Star Trek." And with "Star Trek," there was a full ten years...

Pros: good acting, sumptuous photography
Cons: non-Xers will feel like they came in the middle

Entertainment Weekly asked, "Now that The X-Files is a major motion picture, will questions about the cover-ups, conspiracies, and Cigarette Smoking Man finally be answered? Will Mulder and Scully finally kiss? And will anyone besides the show's...

Pros: Good plot, good acting, great sets, great special FX
Cons: Plot is a little ridiculous at times

All right, I've read enough *Expletive deleted* about this movie and, having seen it numerous times and being a loyal fan of the series, feel it is my duty to state my opinion and vent my anger.

First of all, I get incredibly irritated...

Pros: Faithful to the series, good effects, suspense
Cons: A little too melodramatic

It's like a great episode, but much bigger, much longer, and thankfully, at least as much fun.

When TV shows make the jump to the big screen, they usually hit with a messy wet thud and quickly tumble into deserving obscurity.

And...

Pros: Intriguing Storyline, Good Characterization, Nonstop Thrills and Chills.
Cons: If You're Paranoid, This Flick is Fuel For the Fire.

I've been a longtime fan of the X-Files series, though admittedly an on again, off again viewer. So, I was a bit concerned that I wouldn't know all of the esoteric "X-Speak" and cryptic references that I feared would be a part of the movie. I...

Pros: Mulder and Scully
Cons: Plot undecipherable to the novice or casual fan

Strip away the layers of pretentious paranoia, grandiose voice-over monologues, and lack of continuity of The X-Files, and one can find the truth Chris Carter and his crew try hard to hide.

The X-Files is a love...