X Files : Fight the Future

"X Files"
Rated PG-13 for language and sci-fi scares
Starring David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson and Martin Landau

CineSight Rating ***

What do a series of mysterious deaths near a Texas playground, a bomb in a Dallas federal building and a paranoid doctor all have in common? That's what FBI agents Fox Mulder (Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Anderson) would like to know.

This big-screen episode of the successful TV show pits our heroes directly against the cigarette-smoking man and his shadowy syndicate. Mulder and Scully's detective work (part sixth sense, tip-offs, accidents and good old coincidence) uncovers a terrible plot - "a plague to end all plagues" - involving pre-historic aliens. This leads the dynamic duo from the halls and backrooms of Washington all the way to Antarctica, where they face a chilling fight for the future.

DVD Features

* Widescreen Only Format
* "Making of the X Files" Documentary
* Audio Commentary
* Theatrical Trailers
* Interactive Menu
* Languages: English, French
* Subtitles: English, Spanish

CineSight Comments & Bloopers

The disc is well put-together, with some nice menus and features. The documentary is somewhat enigmatic (like the show), but interesting all the same. It did leave me wondering whether the show's regular contributors have been living in this ambiguous X Files world a little too long.

Not being a die-hard X Files fan, I think I missed some inside jokes or subtle revelations, and the movie seemed to raise more questions than it answered.

* When Mulder and Scully stand on top of a Dallas building, the Los Angeles skyline is visible.

* Since it is Summer in the northern hemisphere (no coats in Washington, and still light in London after 6 p.m.), it should be Winter in Antarctica - dark with a temperature of 60-80 below freezing. So why is it light, and why don't you see Mulder's breath outside?