The X-Files Movie Review

Quick Facts

Rating: PG-13 for intense violence and gore (some profane language too).
Genre: Sci-Fi
Main Cast:
David Duchovny as Special Agent Fox Mulder
Gillian Anderson as Special Agent Dana Scully
Mitch Pileggi as Assistant Director Walter Skinner
William B. Davis as Cigarette-Smoking Man
John Neville as Well-Manicured Man
Dean Haglund as Richard 'Ringo' Langly
Bruce Harwood as John Fitzgerald Byers
Tom Braidwood as Melvin Frohike

Release Year: 1998

Plot

In north Texas in 35,000 CE, two hunters find an alien in a cave and kill it, but get infected with a black oil substance.  In the present, some boys go treasure hunting and discover the cave, which is now buried.  Stevie falls into the cave and finds a human skull.  He holds it and gets infected with the black oil.

THE BLACK OIL.

Poor little Stevie then gets to experience the bio-hazard bubble stretcher and is whisked away to somewhere, while our buddy the Cigarette-Smoking Man observes.  

This is NOT a photo from the movie, it's just to give you an idea.

He observes EVERYTHING.  

Meanwhile Mulder and Scully are assigned to help investigate a bomb threat at the federal building in Dallas.  Mulder and Scully check the building across from the fed building, when they decide it's time for a snack break.  Mulder finds the room of vending machines and discovers the bomb is in one of them.  He also gets locked in, but is rescued before the bomb goes off.  

The bomb.

The FBI isn't happy with them when they get back to D.C. because a fellow FBI agent and four other people died in the explosion, so they get job assessments.  That evening, Mulder meets a doctor who says that the explosion happened to cover up an alien colonization.  Scully confirms this by performing an autopsy on one of the bodies.  They then discover a whole load of conspiracies and save the world.

My Opinion

I'm an X-Files fan, so I was looking forward to watching this.  It presents some interesting new theories and fills some gaps that the show didn't explain.  The movie is supposed to take place between seasons 4 and 5.  It was quite gory, but that's just how the X-Files is.  I give it a 5/5.