The X-Files . Tucson Weekly . 07-06-98

The X-Files

DIRECTED BY: Rob Bowman

REVIEWED: 07-06-98

Help! I can't get that whistling theme music out of my head! That's just one of many reasons to avoid the movie version of The X-Files. On TV, the X-Files successfully exploited the conspiratorial secrets and creepy things lurking in the dark shadows, but the bright light of big-movie translation reveals them as rather cheap. Although the film delivers more special effects and a broader geographic scope, all the promised Big Answers turn out to be big nonsense, and the relationship between agents Mulder and Scully remains teasingly chaste (not to mention stiff). Plus, the plot takes too many asinine steps, from Mulder's easy discovery of a bomb in a building tastelessly similar to the one destroyed in Oklahoma, to his quick recovery from a point-blank gunshot wound to the head. The truth may be out there, but these aren't the sorts of truths about which The X-Files is supposed to leave you wondering.

--Woodruff

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