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The X Files: I Want to Believe (Thriller, 102 minutes
The X Files: I Want to Believe (Thriller, 102 minutes. David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Amanda Peet, Billy Connolly, Callum Keith Rennie, Alvin Xzibit Joiner. Written by Chris Carter, Frank Spotnitz. Directed by Chris Carter. In English with Indonesian subtitles. Playing at 21 Cineplex and Blitz Megaplex.)
Six years after the TV show ended and 10 years after Mulder and Scully's last cinematic outing, the story finds our erstwhile agents enjoying a well-earned retirement from the FBI. Scully has gone back to practicing as a doctor, while Mulder is hiding out, cooking up new conspiracy theories. Their lives are disturbed when Agent Whitney (Peet) asks for help with a kidnapping investigation that's taken a turn on the kooky side.
Troubled priest Father Joe (Connolly) thinks he can see the victim's whereabouts in his mind's eye. Is he blessed with divine visions or is he involved in the crime? As per their old dynamic, Mulder is the believer and Scully the skeptic but sometimes, just to mix it up, they swap. Especially when matters of religion are concerned, as they are here.
This plays like an OK episode of the show, and that's not entirely a put-down, because The X-Files was superbly written and directed, but gets bogged down in an unremarkable plot. Only Connelly's intriguing priest provides a direly needed spark, especially when he clashes with Scully. Loose ends are wrapped up with a lot of double-talk and dime-store philosophizing, adding up to dialogue that doesn't really make sense. *** (out of *****)
-- Briony Kidd
