by Tracy Heck

Created on: August 04, 2008   Last Updated: September 18, 2008

As a avid X-files fan, I was excited when I heard the news that there was a release date for the long rumored second movie. However, as the date grew closer and no information on the movie was forthcoming with little to no promotion, I got a bit worried. After all of the negative reviews, my excitement truly dimmed until I began to reconnect with some old friends from a X-files email group I belonged to years ago at the height of the shows popularity. The more I talked to some of the series "true" fans, the more I once again wanted to see the film. Time and again I heard the words "true to form", "an exploration of Mulder and Scully's partnership", "harkening back to the show's first season" and "little treats for the fans". After finally viewing the film last week, I have to agree with those assessments.

The film picks up six years after the television series ended. Mulder (David Duchovny) is still in hiding after going on the run from the FBI after a trumped up murder charge. He and Scully (Gillian Anderson) are living together in a house out in the country where Mulder spends his days in a recreation of his old FBI office with his infamous I Want To Believe poster cutting out strange phenomenon articles and posting them all over the walls. It is clear that he hasn't quite been able to move on from his old obsessions whereas Scully has settled in comfortably as a full time doctor at a local Catholic hospital.

Scully is approached by FBI Agent Mosley Drummey (Xzibit) looking for Mulder's help with his and Agent Dakota Whitney's (Amanda Peet) case: the disappearance of a FBI Agent and a psychic who claims she is still alive. Scully eagerly encourages Mulder to help after they promise that all charges against him will be dropped. However, once she finds out the psychic, Father Joe, is a accused pedophile priest (Billy Connelly), she dismisses his claims and begs Mulder to drop the case, explaining that she can't go back to "chasing monsters in the dark". At the same time, she is involved in her own side story as she fights to save a young boy with an incurable brain disease with stem cell research. After Father Joe off-handedly tells her "Don't give up.", she wonders if he may be more than he seems. Despite her reservations and head butting with Mulder, she finds herself drawn into the case.

Critics have panned the movie for it's plot holes and Law and Order-esque storyline. There are some parts of the movie that would have been helped with some explanation,

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