X Files, The
Mulder and Scully hit the big screen courtesy of series creator Chris Carter
After several series of televisual foreplay, the X-Files big screen debut gives you yet more foreplay but with bigger monsters. Following a huge (and largely gratuitous) explosive opener, Mulder and Scully head off in search of a plot involving hibernating aliens, killer-bees, sinister organizations, whispering informants and buried spaceships but are thwarted every step of the way by their unsympathetic superiors, who seem to fire them on a regular basis. The usual unconsummated sexual tension runs high as Scully requires rescue from an Alien-style incubator, and although the pair's lips do lock it's only mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, which doesn't count. Excellent! Verdict Not too bad if you like the series, interminable if you don't. |
