The X-Files - Fight the Future (Widescreen Edition)
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Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Starring: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, John Neville, William B. Davis, Martin Landau
Directed By: Rob Bowman
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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0024543010944
Format: Anamorphic
Label: 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2001-01-23
Running Time: 122
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: 1998-06-19
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Summary: The series should have ended with this movie
Comment: Aliens, viruses, secret government entities, genetic engineering, assasinations and the rest of the staples of the X-files TV serial are all in this movie, tied together into a fairly cogent and actually quite believable storyline. And like a good movie based of a TV serial, multiple arcs are closed while none are opened. Specifically, this movie sees the deaths of two important characters from the serial (not Fox or Scully of course), and the existence of aliens on earth is confirmed once and for all in the movie's climatic ending. The style and substance of the movie mirrors the TV show; no sex, swearing or blood, and one short scene of near romance. Hence both movie and serial are appropriate for the same audiences. For those who need to know, the movie does not touch upon Mulder's sister.
All in all, good sci-fi, good action and good storytelling.
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Summary: Why A Decade Later I Still Have Rancor Toward This Film
Comment: You might want to pull up a chair, this is a long, self-interested review.
Back in the autumn '07 I saw this p'ticular movie in a bargain bin, on sale for a dollar, and although I still remembered my loathing for the way its makers manipulated so many of us into flocking to our local multiplex, only to rip us off our ticket price, I still bought it on a "wonder if it was really that bad?" basis. And now that I've at last made time to see it, guess what...it's still THAT BAD.
To think, back in the late-`90's I spent months looking forward to this film. There was once a time, after all, when The X-Files was a big deal, and when I was in college, it was the one TV show no one ever seemed to miss. Instead of a project equal to my and so many others' eager anticipation, we were "treated" to a movie that was terrible in every way. Filled with clichés (please, why must every on-screen bomb have those little red numbers on the front counting down the time till detonation?), this movie made an even greater muddle of already muddled conspiracy theories that by then were starting to drag down one of the most suspenseful, intelligent, and altogether cool series in broadcast history.
Although Fight The Future (yes the "X-Files Movie" actually had a name) promised to reveal all or at least much that we'd been squirming to know, this stinko actually backfired and showed that not only was the truth not out there, but The X-Files was actually a ship plowing haphazardly through choppy waters, no one at the wheel.
As we left the theater, my friend said to me, "They're just making this stuff up as they go, aren't they?"
"Yep, Jackie," I replied, "they are." (There, I used your name in a review.)
And for the first time, ladies and gentlemen, the light of Heaven shone down onto New England, and we saw the Emperor was stark naked.
Okay, kidding aside, I truly think the release of this film was when The X Files jumped the sharks and the beginning of the end to this once ice-hot TV show can be traced to this one goshawful motion picture.
Why after so long do I still feel so much antipathy for a banal movie? Because it was bad. Yes, truly bad as a stand-alone work, and much worse as a disgrace to the one-time great series. Just absolutely hideous!
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Summary: Best of X files
Comment: X files fan will not be disappointed. A good movie with everything that has made the X files a success.
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Summary: Great movie for X-files fans!
Comment: Although people who have never heard of The X-files can watch this, I think it is best for the fans to see this. They will appreciate it more. If you are a fan of X-files, David Duchovny, or Gillian Anderson, then you need to buy this movie today!
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Summary: X-Files for the New Generation.
Comment: based on the top-grossing television series "the x-files" Fight the future takes a new and fresh look at government conspiracies and alien encounters. the film stars the original cast of the X-Files. the story begins in the ice-age when two neadrothals persue a creature into a cave and are never seen again. thousands of years later a group of kids uncover a cave and one child is infected by an alien "plaque". investigating the story mulder and scully discover more than thay wanted to.
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Editorial Reviews:
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The definitive American television series of the '90s comes to the big screen with an anticlimactic whimper. And how could it be otherwise? Why should material so perfectly realized in one medium necessarily translate well into another? The series is crisply and thoughtfully executed in just about every detail, but the heart of its appeal lies in the elegant handling of complicated and evolving ongoing story lines, which is not something movies are especially good at. The big-screen drive for closure cramps the creative style, though it may also help nonfans get a grip on the proceedings. We do get some invigorating thrills and chills, however, and a more satisfying sense of the scale of an all-enveloping human-alien conspiracy than ever before, but there's no more plot development here than in an average two-part season-ending. FBI black sheep Mulder and Scully have been temporarily transferred from the X-Files project to an anti-terrorist unit to investigate an Oklahoma City-style bombing. They uncover a new wrinkle in the Syndicate/Cancer Man conspiracy--basically an attempt to help one bunch of (benign?) aliens fight off another bunch who want to colonize Earth. A spectacular, ice-bound finale thrillingly staged by series-veteran director Rob Bowman offers Mulder (but not a conveniently unconscious Scully) his first clear look at a You Know What, which in some quarters qualifies as an epochal event. Martin Landau offers the agents some crucial clues, and several familiar TV faces (including the Lone Gunmen and Mitch Pileggi's indispensable Assistant Director Skinner) turn up briefly to wink knowingly at faithful fans. --David Chute
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