"X" marks the spot

In the new X-Files film, David Duchovny is back as Fox Mulder, the FBI investigator who “wants to believe” but learns that paranormal proof is about as hard to find as a place to smoke at the County Fair.

     When the FBI is uncomfortable with an institutionalized priest called-in to help locate a group of women abducted in rural Virginia, ex-agents, Scully and Mulder, come out of retirement to validate, or incriminate, his visions in The X-Files: I Want to Believe, the new thriller based on the longest running sci-fi television show in America that ran from 1993 to 2002.
     Gillian Anderson returns as Dana Scully, now a pediatric surgeon, herself wanting to believe that there are options for her terminally-ill patient that the Catholic hospital administrators won’t pursue -- wink, wink: stem-cell therapy -- but the real stand-out is actor Billy Connolly, the conflicted, and convicted, priest who tells (or foretells) the skeptical Scully “Don’t give up.”
     The X-Files is immediately engaging but sometimes waffles between pro-faith and anti-Catholicism and while the smattering of sex-offender jokes is sure to make some squirm, it’s one of the best thrillers ever made and sure to entertain even those sci-fi fans unfamiliar with the television series.

3 Honks
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for violent and disturbing content and thematic material.

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