Click here to copy URL

The X-Files: Fight the Future (The X-Files: The Movie)

Sci-Fi. Mystery. Fantasy This 60-million-dollar science fiction suspense drama (marketed with an additional 25 million dollars), was adapted from the popular TV series The X-Files -- arriving in theaters while the Emmy-winning series was still being aired, continuing plot threads familiar to many of the series' 25 million viewers, and featuring several familiar recurring characters introduced during the previous five TV seasons. In 15,000 B.C., a strange ... [+]
Author Review
United StatesUnited States
Entertainment Weekly
Entertainment Weekly
"Dark, funny, paranoid, arbitrary, humming with tamped-down eroticism and in love with all things weird: That's the good news." POS
United StatesUnited States
The Washington Post
The Washington Post
"The X-Files movie is really just a two-hour teaser for the series's sixth season. And little else"  NEG
United StatesUnited States
ReelViews
ReelViews
"Offers two hours of solid entertainment" POS
United StatesUnited States
Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
"As pure movie, The X-Files more or less works. As a story, it needs a sequel, a prequel, and Cliff Notes (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of four)"  NEU
United StatesUnited States
SFGATE
SFGATE
"Neither true believers nor newcomers to the phenomenon will be disappointed"  POS
United StatesUnited States
The Washington Post
The Washington Post
"The X-Files movie is really just a two-hour teaser for the series's sixth season. And little else."  NEU
United StatesUnited States
AV Club
AV Club
"It's a smart, exciting, involving film that's true to its source, which is all it really needs to be" POS
United StatesUnited States
Variety
Variety
"Falls somewhere in between standing on its own feet as a real movie worth the price of a ticket and merely being a glorified TV episode"  NEU
United KingdomUnited Kingdom
Empire
Empire
"The X-Files can stand proud as a genuine movie with a beginning, a middle and an end, two charismatic leads and a franchise ahead of it." POS
United StatesUnited States USA Today "I entered the screening for The X-Files: Fight the Future with myriad questions... I left with disappointing answers" NEU
We encourage you to check the reviews' original sources. Intellectual property rights of these reviews belong to their authors and/or the correspondent media from which they have been extracted. If you'd like to help us to add more reviews to your favorite movies, just send us a message.
arrow