Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.

Rosie Searle It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Zandra The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Fleur Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

Mihai Toma After the closing of the X-Files, agents Mulder and Scully are reassigned to normal FBI business. After a missed bomb defusing which resulted in a destroyed building and a couple of deaths, they are accused of the tragedy and are soon to be separated, but thanks to some tips from an old friend, what they're about to find out is a global scale conspiracy which is to be kept secret at any costs.It's a movie which reminds me of the series with the same name, with the difference that the case being investigated involves a much deeper mystery and conspiracy than a normal episode. The two main characters are well put in place, described and played, making it a very good movie of the genre. The story is complex with deep roots while the two characters "fight" on multiple plans with what they slowly uncover. It manages to keep you glued to the screen until the end, maintaining and even building up suspense along the way.It's a movie which kept the recipe from the series and improved upon it, thanks to a higher length which allowed a much better story-line and character development. It ended up as a very good movie overall for newcomers and fans alike.

classicsoncall It probably helps a bit to be a fan of The X-Files TV series to enjoy this film, but not completely necessary. The picture goes to great lengths for example, to describe the working relationship Scully (Gillian Anderson) was expected to have with her FBI partner Mulder (David Duchovny). If I'm not mistaken, it came up three times where Scully stated that she was teamed up with Mulder to debunk his work and provide a scientific rationale against his outlandish theories on UFO's and extraterrestrials. But with five seasons of the show behind them, this tack wouldn't be entirely successful in the movie, so the story line provided more fodder for the government conspiracy adherents, and in that respect, added a bit more to the mythology arc explored in the TV program.But there were some bumps in this road for followers of the series. At one point, Mulder went into a lengthy soliloquy on why he's about fed up with searching out the truth, mentioning the alien abduction of his sister Samantha when both of them were still kids. Whether he was merely speaking off the top of his head or not, it had already been established that Samantha's disappearance had been engineered by the Cigarette Smoking Man (William B. Davis) and that Samantha was alive and (relatively) well with a family of her own. So there were those little distractions that fans of the show would be able to pick out.When I first saw this film when it was originally released, I thought the revisit to the business about the bees spreading a virus laden pollen was too much covering of old ground, but I see now with another viewing that it was instrumental in grounding a link to the government conspiracy to keep the public in the dark about alien colonization. Here more than ever it's established that the so called Syndicate is working both with, and against the alien colonization forces, in order to save mankind from becoming a handy meal for extraterrestrial biological entities.My assumption is that the Antarctica scene was meant to provide that over the top, big event, explosive finale that action movies are expected to include these days. As an added bonus, Mulder must rescue Scully from a pod-like chamber in which she's being kept alive following exposure to the alien virus. A mild version of a serum the Syndicate had been working on is shown to be effective in bringing Scully around, thereby providing Mulder the means to make the save, and insure that the franchise would live for another day. Well, make that four more seasons at least, even if "One man alone cannot fight the future".My timing in re-watching this film happened to coincide with the passing of Martin Landau just a few days ago, and I had forgotten that he was part of this film's cast. I always enjoyed his work, having been introduced to him as a teenager watching 'Mission Impossible' during the mid Sixties. That show, along with a couple appearances in Rod Serling's 'Twilight Zone' ('Mr. Denton on Doomsday', 'The Jeopardy Room'), seemed to have well prepared him for the role of the mysterious Dr. Alvin Kurtzweil in this film. It's always sad to hear about the passing of well regarded celebrities, and all I can offer is Rest in Peace, Mr. Landau.

Eric Stevenson I have seen about half a dozen episodes of "The X-Files" and therefore not enough to really call me a fan. What I saw was certainly good. I was quite eager to see a movie based on such a popular show. I believe that it was actually the relationship between Mulder and Scully that was said to have created the term "shipping". As someone who's really into that, it was a lot of fun to see their chemistry. I knew something would interrupt their kiss. Well, Mulder does mouth to mouth on Scully later, so we got that at least.The plot features a building being destroyed which is revealed to have covered up the deaths of people who died from an alien virus. I just felt like I was watching nothing more than just a long episode of the actual show. That's not what I want to see in a movie. It got really interesting toward the end where they were talking about getting rid of the virus but then the movie ends right there! I really was disappointed by that, but it's still not horrible. I especially like seeing the main villain, Cigarette Smoking Man, but I wish he had more screen time. **1/2

Dr Jacques COULARDEAU This first film, when the series was at its highest point of prestige and ascent, is only some kind of variation on the themes of the series itself. Nothing new under the sun, or the full moon as for that. It got some inspiration from some Predator, Aliens or Terminator films of some kind with a super flying saucer buried deep in Antarctica and collecting abducted human beings and keeping them frozen to transport them eventually into space.Of course Scully is abducted in such a program and finds herself frozen for transportation in this flying saucer. But Mulder will save the plot by entering the flying saucer through some backdoor, showing by the way how minimal security is for these extraterrestrials. The film is not that great about the theme. It uses a lot of clichés that had had plenty of time to settle in five years of the series, including the famous nameless cigarette chain smoker. But this film has the main defect of a TV series turned cinema. A TV series has to be cut up in short section of 6 and a half minutes for advertising, and it is shorter than a film since it lasts less than an hour, often not more than 45 minutes. In the film they more or less respect that format though they make the sequences slightly longer and that makes the film slow altogether and slowness is a defect for an action film. So it is some easy entertaining but nothing thrilling.Dr Jacques COULARDEAU