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The X Files: I Want to Believe

  • 2008
  • 14A
  • 1h 44m
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Mulder and Scully are called back to duty by the FBI when a former priest claims to be receiving psychic visions pertaining to a kidnapped agent.Mulder and Scully are called back to duty by the FBI when a former priest claims to be receiving psychic visions pertaining to a kidnapped agent.Mulder and Scully are called back to duty by the FBI when a former priest claims to be receiving psychic visions pertaining to a kidnapped agent.

  • Director
    • Chris Carter
  • Writers
    • Frank Spotnitz
    • Chris Carter
  • Stars
    • David Duchovny
    • Gillian Anderson
    • Billy Connolly
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    • Director
      • Chris Carter
    • Writers
      • Frank Spotnitz
      • Chris Carter
    • Stars
      • David Duchovny
      • Gillian Anderson
      • Billy Connolly
    • 525User reviews
    • 265Critic reviews
    • 47Metascore
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    David Duchovny
    David Duchovny
    • Fox Mulder
    Gillian Anderson
    Gillian Anderson
    • Dana Scully
    Billy Connolly
    Billy Connolly
    • Father Joseph Crissman
    Amanda Peet
    Amanda Peet
    • ASAC Dakota Whitney
    Xzibit
    Xzibit
    • Agent Mosley Drummy
    • (as Alvin 'Xzibit' Joiner)
    Mitch Pileggi
    Mitch Pileggi
    • Walter Skinner
    Callum Keith Rennie
    Callum Keith Rennie
    • 2nd Abductor - Janke Dacyshyn
    Adam Godley
    Adam Godley
    • Father Ybarra
    Alex Diakun
    Alex Diakun
    • Gaunt Man
    Nicki Aycox
    Nicki Aycox
    • 2nd Victim - Cheryl Cunningham
    Fagin Woodcock
    • 1st Abductor - Franz Tomczeszyn
    Marco Niccoli
    • Christian Fearon
    Carrie Ruscheinsky
    Carrie Ruscheinsky
    • Margaret Fearon
    Spencer Maybee
    • Blair Fearon
    Veronika Hadrava
    Veronika Hadrava
    • Female Assistant
    Denis Krasnogolov
    Denis Krasnogolov
    • Male Assistant
    Patrick Keating
    Patrick Keating
    • Slight Man
    Roger Horchow
    • Elderly Gent
    • Director
      • Chris Carter
    • Writers
      • Frank Spotnitz
      • Chris Carter
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    Storyline

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    • Trivia
      Vanessa Morley: When Fox Mulder and Dana Scully first walk back into the F.B.I. offices right before they walk into the bullpen, a female agent walks by that catches Mulder's attention and he watches her walk away. The woman is the actress who throughout The X Files (1993) played the young Samantha Mulder, and is the same Samantha in the photo Mulder has taped to the back of his home office door.
    • Goofs
      When Dacyshyn and the surgeon speak Russian, they switch between the familiar you (ty) and formal you (vy). Russians would never do that.
    • Quotes

      Fox Mulder: What's up, Doc?

    • Crazy credits
      The end credits run over images of ice, water and land, and finally we see Mulder and Scully in a small row boat off of a tropical beach. Scully is in a bikini, Mulder is in swim trunks and rowing toward a small island. They wave to the camera above as it pulls back and fades to black.
    • Alternate versions
      The home video version has behind the scenes photos of the cast and crew over the end credits. The theatrical version did not have these behind the scenes photos.
    • Connections
      Featured in Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: Mamma Mia!/Transsiberian/The Dark Knight/Space Chimps/Tell No One (2008)
    • Soundtracks
      Ooh La La
      Written by Deborah Poppink and Amy Roegler

      Performed by Deborah Poppink

      Courtesy of Deborah Poppink, by arrangement with Bug

      (can be heard in Monica Bannan's car)

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    6/10
    The Most Depressed Kiss in history of TV... I mean... Movies?
    One thing Chris Carter got right about his series: that Mulder expelled himself from social living because he is different. And Scully got also excluded because she supports him at heart but, ironically, none of his beliefs. This was more important than conspiracies and UFOs, it was the core of X-Files: She always had to believe, but wouldn't.

    And now they are together as lovers, they can't live without the other one but at the same time Mulder's compulsions are unbearable, "write a book" she says. It's depressing, they will never be happy: Mulder will never decease to be Mulder and Scully can't live with or without him. And past all these years they still struggle with their relationship, not sure if it was the right path, that only a supernatural "don't give up" may change.

    Another gloomy part was Mulder talking briefly about his sister, that in 2000's his UFO beliefs are ridiculous as Santa traveling the sky. Mulder changed. He doesn't argue back. Not even a wisecrack. He is not so convincing anymore because looks so defeated as a Unabomber cliché. Its the Mulder helpless and without a badge. So he is hesitant, fearing the failure, wanting to be back in FBI investigations but hating the prospect of it.

    Meanwhile Scully fights back a real life "church vs stem cell research" that might terminate her medical career. Her maternal side urges to save a boy that she never had or will have. She even fights the parents for his life revealing her as True mother in Salomon's sense. And Mulder is just not there, almost as if he doesn't care.

    This is the canvas of I Want to Believe, everything else are cumbersome devices trying to appease the X-Philes that don't play very well in a larger screen: Any given moment a skeptical FBI agent walks away saying "it won't work, let's leave" Mulder has an epiphany saving the entire unorthodox investigation. Every time Mulder is revealing something new, Scully cuts it out until she has an epiphany herself. The audience can anticipate every plot move like a series rerun.

    The X-files tune playing at the portrait of W.Bush suggests that Mulder and Scully doesn't have a place in FBI; of coursely, surely, after all, all Conspiracy Theories are very practical under the W.Bush doctrine. But the conspiracy motif that anchored the series were only explored in this silly moment; instead of the bigger-than-life "oh, the humanity" moment, the movie goes for a CSI case that doesn't redeem Mulder nor Scully a bit. The movie ends with a reticent acceptance that is all there is and their kiss is almost a manifestation of that. Is terrible to see two close friends of mine unhappy for life in the middle of the cold nowhere; their love for each other is virtually a curse.
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    • Nov 23, 2008

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    Details

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    • Release date
      • July 25, 2008 (Canada)
    • Countries of origin
      • United States
      • Canada
    • Languages
      • English
      • Russian
      • Czech
    • Also known as
      • X-Files: Je veux y croire
    • Filming locations
      • Capilano University, North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
    • Production companies
      • Twentieth Century Fox
      • Ten Thirteen Productions
      • Dune Entertainment III
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • $30,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $20,982,478
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $10,021,753
      • Jul 27, 2008
    • Gross worldwide
      • $69,363,381
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    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 44 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • DTS
      • Dolby Digital
      • SDDS
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1
      • 2.39 : 1

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