As a die hard X-Phile I HAD to see the movie no matter how bad it was, that’s what I told everyone, and I reasoned that no matter how terrible, at least I’d see Mulder and Scully again, that had to be worth a few points, right? So I showed up at my local theater for the very first showing on the very first day… and left in a sulky rage. It was like a very long boring episode that I wouldn’t have paid much attention to on tv (okay, can we all admit that there have been some REALLY boring episodes of our favorite show? This would have been the single worst episode and it was extra long). There were few redeeming qualities to the movie, all of which were too short, too little, and for most of them, far too late in the movie. I’ve actually recommended everyone wait til the DVD to come out—even to my crazy X-Phile friends who were of the same mindset I was, the “I HAVE to see it in the theater, I just HAVE to… it’s THE X-FILES, I HAVE TO!” mindset. To them I said, “Wait for the DVD… and even then maybe don’t even bother.”

I WANTED to like this movie. I wanted it to be great, and my expectations weren’t even very high to start with. But it was lazily written with none of the scariness, none of the wit, none of the dark mood, none of the unexpected and weird the X-Files used to pony up. I wish they hadn’t made this movie at all, it’s like a belated, undeserved black mark on the record of one of the greatest tv shows of all time.