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The X Files: I Want to Believe

PG-13
Movie
2008
1h 44m
English
Mystery, Science Fiction, Thriller
Six years after the events of The X-Files series finale, former FBI agent Doctor Dana Scully is now a staff physician at Our Lady of Sorrows, a Catholic hospital, and treating a boy named Christian who has Sandhoff disease, a terminal brain condition. FBI agent Drummy arrives to ask Scully’s help in locating Fox Mulder, the fugitive former head of the X-Files division, and says they will call off its manhunt for him if he will help investigate the disappearances of several women, including young FBI agent Monica Banan. Mulder and Scully are called back to duty by the FBI when a former priest claims to be receiving psychic visions pertaining to a kidnapped agent.
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5.7
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CRITIC SCORE
40

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David Duchovny
Fox Mulder
Gillian Anderson
Dana Scully
Amanda Peet
ASAC Dakota Whitney
Billy Connolly
Father Joseph Crissman
Xzibit
Agent Mosley Drummy
Mitch Pileggi
Walter Skinner
Callum Keith Rennie
2nd Abductor - Janke Dacyshyn
Adam Godley
Father Ybarra
Alex Diakun
Gaunt Man
Nicki Aycox
2nd Victim - Cheryl Cunningham
Fagin Woodcock
1st Abductor - Franz Tomczeszyn
Marco Niccoli
Christian Fearon
Carrie Ruscheinsky
Margaret Fearon
Spencer Maybee
Blair Fearon
Veronika Hadrav
Female Assistant
Denis Krasnogolov
Male Assistant
Patrick Keating
Slight Man
Stephen E Miller
Feed Store Proprietor
Xantha Radley
Monica Bannan
Lorena Gale
On Screen Doctor
Donavon Stinson
Suited Man
SarahJane Redmond
Special Agent in Charge
Christina DAlimonte
Doctor's Colleague
Vanesa Tomasino
Hallway Agent
Directed By: Chris Carter
Written By: Frank Spotnitz (Screenplay), Chris Carter (Screenplay)

Featured Comments/Tips

Jim222001 says...
9 years ago
Not bad but you'll be disappointed that Mulder and Scully don't even work together. She is just a surgeon who only cares about using stem cell research to save a sick boy. While Mulder works with the F.B.I. on a Frankstein like case looking for a killer who is killing people for limbs. So yeah, the first movie is much better.
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NotoriousX says...
5 years ago
This is a weird one for me... I didn't especially care for this one when I saw it the first time, but when I saw a few years later it was an ok distraction. Now? Well...after just finishing season nine of the series, this is actually quite good, but that isn't really the truth since the ninth season of the X-files is a shit show of preposterous dimensions. When the show was at its prime, I Want to Believe is a mediocre episode at the worst and a filler at best. Yet...It has its moments, and Gillian Anderson is as lovely as ever, so it's not a total disaster. If you are a fan of the series it's required viewing. If not you can safely skip it.
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FinFan says...
9 years ago
The movie itself isn`t that bad. It just isn´t that much of an x-files movie. And this is not because it hasn´t got any of the mythology of the series. The story would have worked with two generic FBI Agents instead of Mulder and Scully. But I liked the scenes they both had together this did something for the whole story of the charasters and their relationship.
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olegrim says...
11 years ago
where are the aliens? lol jk, it was good tho a little disappointing.
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Featured User Reviews

mulder
3/10  11 months ago
A waste of recources on this movie. Nothing wrong with the cinematography but the story and plot is pointless in terms of the timeline of the X-Files universe. Its just a below mediocre thriller with Mulder and Scully. Gillian and David were good, but not at their best, concidering they hadn't been More
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Whitsbrain
6/10  3 years ago
"X-Files: I Want To Believe" was received poorly by many because it didn't advance the popular "aliens are here" story line. This movie is a one-shot story like many of the episodes were during the original run of the TV series. The X-Files TV series successfully merged the anthology format with a More
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