The X-Files (aka Fight the Future) | David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson

The X-Files (aka Fight the Future) | David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson | X-Spectacular

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	The X-Files (aka Fight the Future) David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson 20th Century Fox, 1999 average customer review:based on 424 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

It's the X Files for cryin out loud!

If you haven't seen this one you are not a true X Files fan. Do yourself a favor and pick it up today!

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What a great movie. I am a seriously fanatical fan of the X-Files, so my opinions regarding this movie are totally biased. The film starts in Texas during the last ice-age, with a couple of neanderthals tracking a creature into an ice-cave. They catch up to it and a rather unpleasant fight ensues. Offcourse, this creature is no earthly type but very alien (basically, he is E.T. gone horribly wrong). One of the neaderthals is killed, the other succeeds in killing the creature, only to succumb to an invasion by a black-oily substance entering his blood stream. The next scene takes place at the same location in the present. A child falls through a hole into the dried out remians of the very same cave and lo and behold, is taken over by the same black oily substance. And so the tale begins in what becomes Mulder and Scully's biggest adventure yet.

For the X-File fan, my question is this: what the hell are you doing reading this? You should've already seen this movie. Purchase this movie at once or don't consider yourself and X-Files fan anymore. For the rest of you - this movie is prehaps the best introdution into the world of the X-Files. The movie, in terms of the overall mythology of the X-Files series comes at the end of the 5th season and ties in very nicely with the opening of the 6th season. Certainly there are a some concepts and story plots that will initially be hard to grasp for the novice X-Filer, however there is no reason why such a person will not thoroughly enjoy this movie, especially if you are at all interested in Sci-Fi and adventure. You'll get to meet all the principal characters of the X-Files and learn some of the pertinent concepts behind the X-Files mythology.

As a movie in itself, it is extremely well made. Superb cinematography, exceptionlly well edited and a well thought out script. The score used throuhgout the movie was ideal and used in a professional manner - i.e it never drowned out the movie, only complimented the scenes, as a sound track should do. I suppose if I were a true critic with no interest in the X-Files, I mightn't give five stars, mabey more like four stars. The film wasn't completely Acadamy award winning stuff, though not far short, particularly in terms of the special effects - brilliant stuff. Anyway, I said I'm biased, so do yourself a favour and grab hold of a copy. Enjoy.

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Critically acclaimed television paranormal anthology goes Hollywood (Between Season 5 and Season 6).

The X-Files Collection is a worthy hobby and next to Star Trek is certainly one of largest of the television series DVD collections, running an extra two seasons longer than the maximum seven season Star Trek series. Although The X-Files is not the longest running television media franchise, it can boast being one of the longest running SF series airing for nine seasons between 1993 and 2002. At around 1100 minutes per box, you are looking at approx. 9 boxes with 165 hours of viewing. That is nearly 1 full week of non-stop X-Files. Very few DVD series can come even remotely close to that. Get going collecting right now and you could build up the series collection in no time. By the end you will have a television paranormal anthology that defines the word awe. This is the kind of item that requires 1 hour a day of your time over the course of a year. The X-Files creator Chris Carter nails a powerful television series premise, setting up a fringe paranormal bureau of investigation that is at odds with its own department, the government, the military and just about everyone else, with the immortal tagline "The truth is out there". Fox "Spooky" Mulder (David Duchovny) is the workaholic basement-dwelling good-looking nerd with a heart of gold and a mind for the criminal macabre, all things supernatural and who runs the X-Files department. He is teamed with Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson), the rational doctor turned FBI agent who is asked to write reports on the X-Files cases by her cynical boss. Most episodes play along with the theme of Mulder witnessing a paranormal event while Dana gradually arrives on the scene only after it is over, missing it all, or discovering something odd at best. This kind of regular plot occurrence bonds the characters and is what makes The X-Files so enjoyable. The is the only X-Files to be in 5:1 Dolby Digital since the show was presented in 2:1 surround, not remastered to 5:1 for the Box Set releases.

The X-Files: the movie, follows in the steps of Season Five and prepares us for Season Six although you don't have to see the Seasons in order to know what is going on as the movie can stand alone by itself (something which causes it to loose a little bit of what fan's prefer in exchange for slight alterations in tone and story for the movie-going masses). Season five ended with the X Files basement being burned down after the return of the Cigarette-Smoking Man (William B. Davis) from the grave. Mulder once believed that the hegemony and the alien colonization of planet Earth was a con to detract from what is simply a series of government experiments on the citizens of planet Earth and the alien agenda just subterfuge. Scully however was absolutely convinced that Mulder was right all long and so took the lead role as the paranormal investigator while Mulder turned sceptic. This character switch now only needs Mulder to come around to what he originally believed, in order for both Mulder and Scully to be on the same wavelength for the first time. The X-Files is all about coming to that point and then some more.

Assistant Director Walter S. Skinner (Mitch Pileggi), `The Lone Gumen' John Fitzgerald Byers (Bruce Harwood), Melvin Frohike (Tom Braidwood) and Richard 'Ringo' Langly (Dean Haglund) make an appearance. Terry O'Quinn from the Millennium television series has a brief role as FBI agent Darius Michaud however the new characters are mainly veteran Hollywood actors brought in to vamp things up to movie quality. Martin Landau plays the paranoid Alvin Kurtzweil, MD set to expose the secret government. Armin Mueller-Stahl is Conrad Strughold, the new face of the mysterious "the Group", a sort of dark Einstein that has a few things to say about the fact that he has been forced to reassess his role by new effects in biology which have presented themselves as spontaneous population. The central most important character of the lot for this film is The Well-Manicured Man (John Neville from "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen") who is about to tell Mulder what the conspiracy is. The car scene in which this is revealed is nearly everything the fans have been waiting to hear although some points are left relatively obscure (so that we can have more Seasons about it). It is for this that most X-File lovers will be satiated and left spinning thinking about the ramifications of the new deadly threat. While not everything in the movie might not make movie quality sense (we have always ignored the holes to allow for quicker moving themes in the stories in the television series and the same applies here) and sometimes characters do or act in a very odd way along with lots of borrowing from movies we have seen before, the action midway possibly more than a little bit underachieving, many would have hoped for more, but alas this is just a big two hour episode with extra special effects and not the kind of movie-movie that maybe some expected. It is really a big play up to the delivery of the conspiracy in the car scene. Keep expectations low and the rewards are much higher. Hope to see Star Wars EP. III and you will be far from impressed. Critic weighing-scales aside the main reason to see this movie is that we could be seeing Mulder and Skully getting it on!... now why didn't I mention that earlier? If you just a regular movie goers outside of the fan base you can knock a star of this review. For those who gave it 5, it is on to Season 6 from here...

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Fight the Future

Taking place between the 5th and 6th seasons of the show, this movie has very little to do with "The End", the season 5 finale. The only references include that of the X-Files being closed, but include no references to Gibson Praise, Diana Fowley, and Agent Spender. That said, this movie is so dynamic in how the characters are presented and the way the film is shot. Mark Snow's score is also very rich compared to the show's, but from a large movie that's to be expected. This movie of course deals with the mythology arcs of the show. The "Black Oil" is a very prominent subject in the movie, especially at the very startling beginning that follows two cavemen through the ice-age on the hunt for a creature in a cave. The movie makes some good revelations and the ending leaves it open for Season 6 to take over. The DVD has commentaries, featuresttes, etc. This film is recommended to any X-Files fan, but if you are unfamiliar with the show, this movie will confuse you.

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X-Files no mystery

I remember first seeing the film in the theater & how enjoyable it was seeing Mulder & Scully on the big screen. It still is with the DVD giving me more background on how it was made. Just hope they do another one.

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