Director: Rob Bowman
Cinematographer: Ward Russell
Screenplay: Chris Carter & others
Agent Fox Mulder- David Duchovny
Agent Dana Scully - Gillian Anderson
Dr Alvin Kurtzweil - Martin Landau
Cigarette-smoking man - William B Davis
Well-manicured man - John Neville |
If you believe in aliens, lethal viruses and government plots to keep the general public in ignorance, and if you have become a passionate follower of the television exploits of Fox Mulder and Dana Scully, then you are sure to get a buzz out of "The X Files Movie: Fight the Future".
The movie gives you the chance to see Scully and Mulder on the big screen doing what they do best - sparking with unresolved sexual tension and battling nameless, faceless men who are determined to prevent them from uncovering the truth.
This time they discover that what appears to be a terrorist bombing was in fact engineered to cover up something far more sinister. The already familiar "black cancer" has developed into a new and far more dangerous strain of extra terrestrial origin, and those who have been keeping the secret of alien visitation for the past 50 years are once more involved in manipulating the situation to their own ends. Mulder and Scully are all that stand between us and disaster.
The film looks great. There are some real shocks and plenty of suspense. OK so there are echoes of almost any sci-fi film you've seen - at one point the alien reminded me of ET with slime, at another I was back in the "nursery" of the Alien mother. But heah, this is not aiming to be the greatest film of all time, just good escapist fantasy.
The audience I saw the film with ranged in age from their teens to 40 plus - family groups and peer groups - and all seemed to be engrossed. Occasional comments of "Cool", or "Oh No!" were all that came from my 13-year-old companion.
The film was a little overlong, lacking the tightness of the best of the television episodes. Not up there with "Speed" or "The Long Kiss Goodnight" but nevertheless an entertaining action/thriller.
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