The X Files

Dark, funny, paranoid, arbitrary, humming with tamped-down eroticism and in love with all things weird: That's the good news.

Neither true believers nor newcomers to the phenomenon will be disappointed.

It's the brilliance of The X-Files to have turned Mulder's paranoid style into a function of cool. Mulder and Scully aren't just beautiful, smart, well-armed and seemingly impervious to the banalities of everyday life, such as cheap haircuts and ruinous love affairs--they're cool.

The X-Files movie is really just a two-hour teaser for the series's sixth season. And little else. You will feel exactly like Mulder when he says, "How many times have we been right here before, Scully? So close to the truth?"

With its shrewd mixture of paranoia and the paranormal, the way its elaborate mythology combines enigmatic phenomena with potent cabals intent on running the world, The X-Files experience resembles "Twin Peaks" crossed with "The Twilight Zone."

It's a two-hour episode of the show, except with better production values and a nicer wardrobe for Scully.

Essentially a supersize episode that ignores a slew of fifth-season developments and adds yet another monster to the mix, one that owes a striking debt to "Alien."

If you’re an X-Files fan this film should be immediately appealing. No, it’s not the greatest thing ever committed to celluloid, not by a long shot. But it does expand nicely on the mythology, delivers performances that are nothing short of fan service, and an sufficient plot that both diehards like me AND newcomers alike can pick up on. I’m 31 years old. When I saw FTF, at about nine years old, it was magic. Recommended for every last X-File fan. Also a fairly good place to begin your obsession, as it squarely marks the X. Anyone uninterested should stay clear, and probably already has anyways.

Director Rob Bowman made this movie in 1998 and created from the television series... The X-Files movie made in 1998 has a good storyline, fantastic action, suspense, good scenes and excellent performances from David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson as Mulder and Scully and an excellent opening sequence and a bomb hidden in a building. Excellent film!

More of an extended episode than anything else, this film adaptation of the phenomenal television series still manages delivers on many levels despite its somewhat convoluted plot.

I have never seen the tv show but the movie was pretty boring and doesn't really make me want to see the show. A lot of talking and not a lot happening. There were some interesting scenes like when the alien hatched or when he was rescuing Scully from the alien facility in Antarctica but most of it was just a lot of talking that went over my head. I hope the tv show is better I like sci fi and paranormal stuff so I think this has potential but this just didn't do it for me.

Less interesting than the average episode of the TV-series. Really very unbelievable and highly improbable plot. Only for those who really want to believe.