To find the truth, you must believe.
Not currently showing on the local cinema circuit.
| Cast |
David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Amanda Peet, BIlly Connolly, Xzbit, Callum Keith Rennie, Adam Godley |
| Director |
Chris Carter |
| Screenplay | Frank Spotnitz, Chris Carter |
| Cinematography | Bill Roe |
| Editing | Richard A. Harris |
| Sound formats | Dolby Digital, Sony Dynamic Digital Sound, DTS |
| Soundtrack | Available |
| Made in | 2008 |
| Produced by | Crying Box Productions, Ten Thirteen Productions, Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation |
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| Genre | Science fiction |
| Language | Moderate, infrequent |
| Nudity | None |
| Sex | None |
| Violence | Frequent, gory and bloody, although violent images and scenes are mostly brief and implied |
| Prejudice | None |
| Blasphemy | None |
| Drug abuse | None |
| Comments | None |
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| Scale (Max) | 20 |  |
What the Critics say | ||
| Cape Argus / The Star Theresa Smith | 5 |  |
| Die Burger Ronel Nel | 5 | |
| Cape Times Jan Stuart | 5 | |
| iAfrica.com Nils van der Linden | 8 |  |
| The Citizen Natalie Bosman | 10 | |
| Sunday Times Barry Ronge | 10 | |
| 24.com Shaheema Barodien | 5 | |
| Chicago Sunday Times Roger Ebert | 18 |  |
| eye Weekly Adam Nayman  The X-Files: I Want to Believe is a major disappointment | 5 | |
| Rolling Stone Peter Travers I wanted to believe that X-Files creator Chris Carter, having had six years since the TV show went off the air to craft a humdinger of a plot, could conjure up something with more ding and less (ho) hum than The X-Files: I Want To Believe. | 10 | |
| ScreenItNot horrible but nothing more than an extended and fairly humdrum and recycled episode from the original show. | 8 | |
| Metacritic.com 32 critics | 10 | |
| Rottentomatoes critics 122 critics | 10 | |
| Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer The chemistry between leads David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson do live up to The X-Files' televised legacy, but the roving plot and droning routines make it hard to identify just what we're meant to believe in. | 7 | |
What the People say | ||
| Internet 5746 Netizens This X-Files movie episode isn't going to win any new fans over, but for X-philes, I'd bet we're probably just satisfied already with our heroes appearing in celluloid one more time, that no matter how wafer thin the plot is. | 14 | |
Average .. 43% | 9 | |