To follow up with last nights whodunit? movie I decided to follow it up with a great sci-fi conspiracy thriller. I sat down and watched for the first time since I saw it in the theaters the X-Files. I will let everyone know that I have never been one to watch the X-Files television show, yet I really enjoyed the whole concept of this movie. Not having any previous conceptions about the TV series I think truly helped me go about this movie in the correct way to view the movie as its own stand alone film and not part of a television series. While this movie is nothing ground breaking it is definitely a fun movie to watch every year, especially as part of the whole Halloween season.
David Duchovny as Mulder he is surprisingly very at ease in his role as the out there FBI agent. It is really nice how he plays the outlandish FBI agent in such a way that nothing seems forced or even overacted. As a viewer I feel that it is played in such a way that you feel that the movie is not actually a movie but that you are in fact following this alien believing FBI agent. Gillian Anderson though on the other hand as Scully is played in the opposite way. While at the beginning the main struggle with Scully's role is that she is over acting her lines. Yet eventually, Anderson settles in and we truly see that she is the true opposite to Mulder with an uptight wants nothing but facts as an FBI agent.
While the story is a little slow at the start to get us up to speed, after the first fifteen minutes though the story moves quickly and keeps us guessing at not only where the story is going, but is interesting that I wanted to know what was going to happen. The part that made the story interesting to me as well though is that I not only wanted to get to know the ending, but I was also desirous to want to understand and learn all the small nuances within the plot.
The direction in this film is very serviceable. We are taken to many different locations and it is nice to not feel like we are on some created sets with these locations, but they seem to do a great job at inviting us even more into the whole atmosphere and belief in the story. The scene transitions were truly successful and very smooth, and they are done in a creative way so that we are not only informed but entertained as well.
The X-Files is a solid movie that delivers a great sci-fi conspiracy thriller. Duchovny was great in this movie and it was great that he played the role so easily. While the dialogue is not always the strongest, it is far from horrible. Personally, I loved the different locations and the smooth transitions between these locations. I really enjoyed this movie and because of that I am giving it three buckets of popcorn out of five. This is a movie that is definitely worth renting and as another side note like in the previous, this movie is currently available on the instant queue on Netflix.
-The Movie Man-
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