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Dir. Chris Carter
Rating: 4.6 | 0 User Reviews | Send to Friend
Forced to wait outside a closed FBI office door, former agents Mulder (David Duchovny) and Scully (Gillian Anderson) take special note of the two framed photographs on either side of the entrance: George W. Bush and J. Edgar Hoover. If the loonies are indeed running the asylum as the scene suggests, it's no wonder the two agents left the biz. And it's been a while. Chris Carter's revered '90s TV series about FBI agents dealing with the paranormal had its lone theatrical release back in 1998, and in the last decade -- fraught with terrorist threats, real and imagined; a rip-torn economy and the collapse of the US as the world's superpower -- people have, perhaps, moved on a bit. The film doesn't go much further to explain, exactly, why after all these years Carter felt the urgent need to return. The plot, which concerns missing FBI agents, a pedophile priest psychic and a team of deranged Russian organ thieves, is strictly of the TV show variety -- implausible, sketchy and, ultimately, sort of pointless. There is a subplot involving Scully's attending a sick child and her controversial decision to try stem cell therapy in an attempt to save him, which thankfully gives Anderson something to work with other than telling Mulder again and again how wrong he is, but often feels as if it were from a different movie altogether. Fans of the show -- which were certainly legion, at one point in time -- might thrill to seeing their heroes resurrected for another go round (and marvel at Duchovny's fake beard grown in FBI exile), but everybody else can probably find something better to do. In the day and age of the Patriot Act, Abu Ghraib and Gitmo, the idea that there's something out there our government may or may not be hiding from us is perhaps a bit too fanciful to take very seriously.
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