The X-Files
 | MovieDirected by Rob Bowman Starring: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, John Neville, William B. Davis, Martin Landau 20th Century Fox, 1998, VHS Tape Customer Rating: 423 reviews Recommend This product is currently not available and cannot be purchased. It means that we have no merchant offers for this product at the moment or it was discontinued by the manufacturer. |
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The definitive American television series of the '90s comes to the big screen with an anticlimactic whimper. And how could it be otherwise? Why should material so perfectly realized in one medium necessarily translate well into another? The series is crisply and thoughtfully executed in just about every detail, but the heart of its appeal lies in the elegant handling of complicated and evolving ongoing story lines, which is not something movies are especially good at. The big-screen drive for closure cramps the creative style, though it may also help nonfans get a grip on the proceedings. We do get some invigorating thrills and chills, however, and a more satisfying sense of the scale of an all-enveloping human-alien conspiracy than ever before, but there's no more plot development here than in an average two-part season-ending. FBI black sheep Mulder and Scully have been temporarily transferred from the X-Files project to an anti-terrorist unit to investigate an Oklahoma City-style bombing. They uncover a new wrinkle in the Syndicate/Cancer Man conspiracy — basically an attempt to help one bunch of (benign?) aliens fight off another bunch who want to colonize Earth. A spectacular, ice-bound finale thrillingly staged by series-veteran director Rob Bowman offers Mulder (but not a conveniently unconscious Scully) his first clear look at a You Know What, which in some quarters qualifies as an epochal event. Martin Landau offers the agents some crucial clues, and several familiar TV faces (including the Lone Gunmen and Mitch Pileggi's indispensable Assistant Director Skinner) turn up briefly to wink knowingly at faithful fans. — David Chute
Title: The X-Files (Movie)
Sales Rank: 10682 in VHS
Actor: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, John Neville, William B. Davis, Martin Landau
Director: Rob Bowman
Studio: 20th Century Fox, 1998-10-13, Theatrical Release: 1998-06-19
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language)
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Running Time: 121 minutes
Package Dimensions: 7.32 x 4.19 x 1.12 inches, 0.38 pounds
- The X - FILES
- I love this movie but the local video store doesn't have it on dvd so it was important to get it quick . It arrived ASAP . GREAT… More reviews
- Awesome film!
- As an avid viewer of the X-Files and owner of all the seasons I couldn't wait to see this film, and it didn't dissapoint. Forget what you thpught you knew this one will blow you away! Recommended for any X-Files fans or not!… More reviews
- awesome!!
- wow i'm so awed by how fast this dvd came!! it came before the estimated date!! great seller!! More reviews
- Well maybe you won't notice it...
- Let's just hope they got the transfer done nice and clean this time (Blu-Ray) as the THX anamorphic release done a few years ago(This one) had picture problems with Fight the future. No matter where I purchased it.(8 different copies) They all had the same problem. Maybe you won't see it. A line going across… More reviews
- Good movie
- My family has recently become huge fans of the X-files TV show (thanks to reruns on the Sci Fi channel), so we were excited to see that they had actually released a movie back in the late 90's. I read several of the bad reviews that this movie received, but we really liked it when we first watched it. True, it's a little different from the TV series… More reviews
