Synopsis
Mulder and Scully, now taken off the FBI's X Files cases, must find a way to fight the shadowy elements of the government to find out the truth about a conspiracy that might mean the alien colonization of Earth.
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Cast
- David DuchovnyAgent Fox Mulder
- Gillian AndersonAgent Dana Scully
- Mitch PileggiAssistant Director Walter Skinner
- William B. DavisThe Cigarette-Smoking Man
- John NevilleThe Well-Manicured Man
- Martin LandauKurtzweil
- Jeffrey DeMunnBronschweig
- Tom BraidwoodFrohike
- Blythe DannerCassidy
- Terry O'QuinnMichaud
Recommendations
- 83
Entertainment Weekly
Dark, funny, paranoid, arbitrary, humming with tamped-down eroticism and in love with all things weird: That's the good news. - 80
Washington Post
Like the TV show, The X-Files movie is stylish, scary, sardonically funny and at times just plain gross. - 75
Chicago Sun-Times
As pure movie, The X-Files more or less works. As a story, it needs a sequel, a prequel, and Cliff Notes. - 70
The A.V. Club
It's a smart, exciting, involving film that's true to its source, which is all it really needs to be. - 60
Los Angeles Times
With its shrewd mixture of paranoia and the paranormal, the way its elaborate mythology combines enigmatic phenomena with potent cabals intent on running the world, The X-Files experience resembles "Twin Peaks" crossed with "The Twilight Zone." - 60
Slate
The X-Files isn't so much a bad movie as it is a crackerjack piece of television. It's crisply made--not sodden like many of the "Star Trek" pictures. But it's as annoyingly open-ended as the rest of the series' episodes. - 60
Empire
The X-Files can stand proud as a genuine movie with a beginning, a middle and an end, two charismatic leads and a franchise ahead of it. - 50
The New Yorker
Ultimately disappointing--it's bigger budgeted, but somehow less engrossing when played outside the solitary intimacy of the tube. It'll be a great video flick.
