Eye Candy #286 - "The X Files - I Want to Believe"

X Files - I Want to Believe: I never drank of the X-files kool-aid, so I didn’t and don’t follow the franchise with the rabidity that some people do.  Not to say I’m against the idea, it’s just during it’s heyday, I missed it because I often didn’t have cable TV.  But I saw the first movie, even if it didn’t make complete sense to me, and figured once this hit DVD, away I’d go.  And the first thing that struck me about this film is how absolutely middle-of-the-road for the serial killer genre this.  You could take X Files off the title, and it wouldn’t impact the plot or make it any more or less believable as a stand-alone film in the same vein.  Fox Mulder is brought out of retirement/seclusion to assist the FBI (led by Amanda Peet and rapper Xzibit) in finding a missing agent who was kidnapped by a gang of Russian organ harvesters.  He’s also paired with their other source of info about the agent, a disgraced priest with psychic visions (played by Billy Connolly), while Scully, now a doctor, struggles with her own issues.  For a thriller, it isn’t all that thrilling nor is it overwhelming weird or odd.  And for placing the film in West Virginia, it’s obvious that they don’t realize that British Columbia and the Rockies don’t look like WV and the Appalachians.  Pretty much, this is just a time-waster, as it doesn’t expand the mythos, set-up for a return of the property, or really make you clamor for one.  Woodchuck sez, “Nothing to write home about.”