The X-Files was one of the most successful and award-winning science-fiction TV show phenomenons of the 1990's, and a movie seemed the obvious place to go. The film opens 2700 years ago with a secret being discovered in the ice age, and then proceeds to the present day where this cave, in Texas, this secret is unleashed. Meanwhile, Special FBI Agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) try and find a terrorist bomb in a Dallas building, and after failing to stop it they are put on leave. But they are soon drawn into danger with a conspiracy theory that a special group, the Syndicate, don't want anyone to know and are determined to cover up. They risk careers and lives to hunt down the truth behind an extra-terrestrial virus, found to be spread by wasps, and it could be deadly to all life on Earth. Taking them from the caves of Texas to the underground secret installations in Antarctica, it is only after the FBI heads gets some evidence, a wasp, that they may believe the conspiracies, and reopen The X-Files. Also starring John Neville as The Well-Manicured Man, William B. Davis as Cigarette Smoking Man, Martin Landau as Dr. Alvin Kurtzweil, Mitch Pileggi as FBI Assistant Director Walter Skinner, Armin Mueller-Stahl as Conrad Strughold, Dean Haglund as Richard 'Ringo' Langly, Bruce Harwood as John Fitzgerald Byers, Meet the Parents' Blythe Danner as Jana Cassidy and Lost's Terry O'Quinn as Darius Michaud. Duchovny and Anderson are just as great as they are on TV, it is filled with some impressive set pieces and bigger budget special effects, even though I am not wasn't an avid viewer of the show, it does make me want to want a few episodes, a great thriller. Very good!
Review of The X Files
