Customer Reviews
Fantastic stand alone with no loose ends! - By: T. Clarke, 21 Feb 2008 
This film is totallly better than I remembered. Then again, I probably appreciate it more now with the glut of awful films to have been released over the past few years. Scripted & acted out in a way that non-X Files fans can enjoy, the film is very satisfying in that it holds no loose ends when the film is over. Though its set out, plotted, & arranged like a normal X Files episode, the Hollywood influences only ensure some lovely 'nasty' alien props, along with great location in the antartic & more.
Only part that questioned me... (Spoiler) Mulder travels to the Antartic/Pole with the knowledge he has to give Scully a viral antidote in a certain period of time. Yet, with only a caterpillar-tracked vehicle, he's clearly scaled miles of snow in the amazingly short time he's got, considering he was back in the U.S moments before! I guess that's why they calll this 'Hollywood Timing'...
Don't miss this if you're an X Files fan, or indeed if you just like little green men!
A FANTASTIC MOVE TO THE BIG SCREEN - By: stuart, 07 Aug 2007 I always laugh at those that say this film is nothing more than a television episode transferred to the big screen. I always feel like going yes, you are right. Why? Well, the television show was always like a mini feature film, the production style & the moody photography making it more of a cinematic experience than a televisual one which is why I think this big screen version works so well. Chris Carter writes the script, it's directed by Rob Bowman, scored by Mark Snow, edited by Stephen Mark & the visual effects are handled by Mat Beck, the television team, & you know what, that cinematic style that the television show did so well transfers to the big screen superbly. This is The X Files:The Movie & boy is it good. Moving the production from moody Vancouver to sunny Los Angeles is a good move. While the film retains that dark moody look (just take a look at the fantastic scene where the Syndicate meets) we also get the look of a Summer blockbuster (which this film was).
Essentiallly The X Files:Fight The Future is a continuation of the mythology (story arc) begun in the television series where Mulder & Scully strive to stop the colonization of Earth by a benevolent force of extra terrestrials being conducted by a shadowy government known as the Syndicate (which appears to be a global affair, not just an American one if the film is anything to go by). Not strained by the budget or time constraints of a television show budget, here Carter & Bowman get to have more fun & place in sequences that would never have been possible on television. We get the fantasticallly staged, if frighteningly realistic, bombing at the start, the thrilling helicopter chase, the secret under Antarctica & it's destruction at the rising of an alien ship. The mythology, which was essentiallly Mulder's quest, the forefront & spine of the television series, which was always a personal quest, now becomes an epic struggle, no longer a personal one, even though, going by the special edition version here, still has links to Mulder's attempts to discover what happened to his sister. All of a sudden the Syndicate is a world wide affair, the FBI stretches beyond Skinner & the Syndicate's nefarious schemes reach out beyond rail road cars & hospitals in middle America. This is a fantastic big screen transformation if you ask me.
Carter's script is as good as expected & the direction of Bowman is, like on the shown, assured. The best director on the series, his episodes were always the most cinematic visuallly & he doesn't disappoint here. Then there's the performances from the main & supporting cast. Duchovny & Anderson are superb as always, especiallly Anderson as Scully faces tough choices over her career, while the supporting cast is made up of new & familiar faces. Cigarette Smoking Man & Skinner are present, but John Neville as the Well Manicured Man steals the honors as the best of the supporting cast from the show as the character once & for alll lays it alll on the line & shows us that he was a good guy alll along, while fine support also comes from Martin Landau as Kurtzwiel, Mulder's informant who quickly gets the Deep Throat/X treatment. Forever tempted away from casting big names on the show, doing it here works, not just because it's a movie, but because like Jodie Foster, Mimi Rogers, Michael McKean & Bruce Campbell, Martin Landau reallly fits the role here & it doesn't feel like a star cameo for the sake of it.
The X Files works so well on the big screen & we reallly shouldn't be surprised, but it's been five years since this film & I hope that that summer in 1998 will not be the only time I & other X Philes will be able to see it where it so clearly belongs.
Stand Alone - By: D. L. Grant, 13 May 2007 
I used to wacth xfiles when it first came out but lost track of it around season 3. A fluke chance led me to purchase this film & wasn't reallly dissapionted!
The film is fairly solid & of course the audience gets told just what did happen to 'Spookies' sister. Some of the filming is great but it is let down in other areas, the aliens looked good but lacked the feel of the creatures from alien, they just looked a little to cartoony.
Definitely a sci-fi film must have, butnot quite good enough to stand toe to toe with the greats, but seems to fit in with feel of the series!
to complete season 5 - By: Wang Xi, 09 Mar 2006 season 5 is somehow too short for me, apart from redux-like myth episodes, the lone epis are not that exciting, a bit of filler reallly. however, when you see this, you are gonna like season 5, the movie maker did a good job in that at a right time, chose the right form, to hit two target with one stone, the backgrounds of two characters are revealed through conversation in the hearing, this is the one of the few ways to acheive this in movies, & it suits perfectly the temporal story line right after the burning of the office, so, for both movie audiences & tv audience, this is a alllound job. the only pity is, the movie is too important for the conitnuation of season 7, without seeing the movie, it's hard to feel comfortable in season 7u first epi.
Entertaining, better than I remember... - By: Iceni Peasant, 09 Jan 2006 I first saw this movie in the cinema on its release & wasn't sure whether I liked it or not. However having purchased alll the seasons DVDs & watching this movie again in between Season 5 & Season 6, it is VERY relevant & good entertainment, linking those two Seasons together.
It perhaps doesn't have the same feel as the series, but alll the elements are still there. Mulder & Scully nagging at each other in their funny ways, Skinner playing middle ground, & Cigarette Smoking Man always lurking in the least suspecting of places.
The movie DOES progress the theory of the conspiracy the Syndicate has with the aliens to form a slave race, while at the same time trying to invent an anti-virus to fight off that impending invasion
The special effects are excellent & the movie does have quite a bit of pace.
As a fan from the start I still feel it could have been better in places & have a bit more edge like the episodes have, but it's still very worthwhile to have this movie in your X-Files collection.
