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After buying tickets at the last minute and missing the pre-movie beer fun, Monica and I still managed to find our way to the movie theatre despite having to get off the bus on our way there to go back for the note with the ticket reference number…

Anyway, the movie…

To find the truth, you must believe, apparently. I didn’t believe, but the truth is that this movie is a bit of a let-down.

I was never a huge X-Files fan, although I did catch quite a few episodes here and there. As such, I had no real expectations for the movie, except perhaps a few angry aliens and some slime here and there. That’s X-Files to me. But for the first 3/4 of the movie or so I thought I was watching a ripoff of The Bone Collector or something like that, “spiced up” by a pointless romantic side-plot. A bog-standard tortured-detective-must-solve-some-crime (combined with Grey’s Anatomy/ER), with not an alien in sight.

Towards the end of the movie, some interesting things start happening, but it doesn’t last very long. And with the main plot out of the way, it’s back to Grey’s Anatomy to finish off the thing.

Something that actually bothered me a bit was the constant referencing of Christian mythology, almost like they were trying to force it down our throats. I get it, I get it! God is good, God is great and all that. Could you bring out the aliens now please? I don’t care if Scully has delusions of grandeur and thinks she’s chosen by God to do some stuff that’s actually irrelevant to the actual X-Files’y plot and could have been dropped.

And as you may have gathered by now, that’s the problem with this movie. You could have easily shaved off an hour of the runtime and gotten a better movie out of it. Sure, you would be down to just the length of a normal X-Files episode, but maybe that’s exactly what this movie is.

It’s a mediocre X-Files episode with a lot of irrelevant stuff added.

Wake me up when the aliens attack.

Hoff says: “Stick to the beach”