Written April 16, 2009
Original buzz:
X-Files: I Want to Like this Movie
This one was not quite worth the wait. It may have worked well enough as an episode. Maybe even a two-parter, but as a big-screen film after years of nothing, it's only alright. They've made a stand-alone story here, which is fine since most of the episodes of the TV show stood fairly well on their own. They've avoided the alien conspiracy story arc, and that's fine. But this one just doesn't feel like an X-Files story for most of the run-time. Sure, there's a priest who may or may not be having visions regarding these women who've been kidnapped, but other than that, nothing shows up for a long while that actually feels like an X-Files storyline.