Roman Sampson One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

Lidia Draper Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

Marva-nova Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

Zlatica One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

Eric Stevenson I have seen about half a dozen episodes of "The X-Files" and therefore not enough to really call me a fan. What I saw was certainly good. I was quite eager to see a movie based on such a popular show. I believe that it was actually the relationship between Mulder and Scully that was said to have created the term "shipping". As someone who's really into that, it was a lot of fun to see their chemistry. I knew something would interrupt their kiss. Well, Mulder does mouth to mouth on Scully later, so we got that at least.The plot features a building being destroyed which is revealed to have covered up the deaths of people who died from an alien virus. I just felt like I was watching nothing more than just a long episode of the actual show. That's not what I want to see in a movie. It got really interesting toward the end where they were talking about getting rid of the virus but then the movie ends right there! I really was disappointed by that, but it's still not horrible. I especially like seeing the main villain, Cigarette Smoking Man, but I wish he had more screen time. **1/2

Python Hyena The X-Files: Fight the Future (1998): Dir: Rob Bowman / Cast: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Martin Landau, Armin Mueller-Stahl, John Neville: Enchanting sense of wonder and imagination. It plays on symbolism with honest government and other mysteries. David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson plays two agents bent on solving a case involving alien activity. Martin Landau plays a paranoid doctor who knows of a cover up. Annoying villain, played by John Neville, who constantly chain smokes and looks like an all around jackass that affects the film's credibility as entertainment. They call him Cigarette Smoking Man. He comes off as Ass Clown Man. Intriguing plot with many story twists with director Rob Bowman exploring the operation in question. Duchovny and Anderson have wonderful chemistry as they fight against the system and try to survive attempts made on their lives. Landau steals scenes as the paranoid doctor although more footage of him would have been great. Armin Mueller-Stahl also appears in what could have been a broader role. Nonetheless he steals his scenes particularly his final scene. Capitalizing on the popular show but it is the provocative nature that the program presents that allows the film to succeed. It is an entertaining screen adaptation that reveals everything except the answers, but who expected that? Score: 8 ½ / 10

FilmBuff1994 The X-Files is a great movie with a well developed storyline with a talented cast.I have never seen a single episode of the television series and decided to watch this movie when I saw that it was on TV,I was afraid that I wouldn't set a lot of it since I haven't watched the series,but it was clearly written so people who don't watch the series could still understand what was going on.The two main actors,Derek Duchovney and Gillian Anderson,are the best part of this movie,they both suit their characters extremely well and you can tell with the on screen chemistry that they were use to working with each other from the series.I think fans of the series will probably still enjoy it very much,but people who haven't seen the X-Files can still definitely watch the movie,and I would recommend as a good sci-fi and mystery.Mulder and Scully get caught up in a worldwide conspiracy that could change the future of mankind.

david-sarkies Probably one one the most hyped and advertised movies this years. I will also say anticipated but that is getting way to clichéd, and I am here to be critical rather than a form of free advertising. Anyway, this movie has been described as a very good X-files episode. My opinion is that it wraps up the four seasons of the X-files. The mystery has been revealed and we know what is going on. It is a decent movie on its own, but it fills in a lot of gaps that have been left open in many of the important episodes. It continues on from episodes such as Tunguska and explains the real intention of the aliens. In some cases we wonder if Chris Carter had a plan in mind as he put the episodes together (such as John Michael Strazinsky with Babylon 5) but it seems that with this movie, there was an idea that was tying all, or a lot, of the episodes together.The problem with such a movie is knowing what to give out. The advertisements talk of a bomb going off in Dallas which covers up a number of dead bodies which were pulled out of the ground, one of them being a rednecked kid. What we do have is an alien that was lying dormant in the ground for millions of years and it was unearthed by some rednecked kids on the outskirts of a Texan city. Within minutes FEMA is there covering it up and the smoking man is running the show.That is an interesting thing about the smoking man. He is not as powerful as we expect him to be. On one hand he seems to be the guy that is behind everything but there is a secret organisation that are pulling his strings. The smoking man is really an operative that has more powers than the President of the United States. In fact he has the authority to assassinate the president if the president looks like he is going to undermine their plans, and the plans are broad reaching.I don't want to give too much away because the whole point of the movie is the mystery. Once the mystery has been revealed then there is nothing of interest left. I watched the X-files for the big mystery and was a little board with the episodes that did not raise more questions about what was really going on. We know that there are aliens around and we know that Mulder's father was involved in it. We also know that there have been medical experiments on many people and recently we found out that people were being exterminated because of these experiments. Most importantly the Black Cancer that is the major focus of Tunguska, is heavily involved.The X-files continues the theme of the distrust of the government and the hatred of the central authority. In these episodes it has always been the government that has been attacked for its secrets and conspiracies. There is the running idea that the government is not to be trusted and the truth is being hidden from us. We are living a life that is terminally destructive and the government knows why. Others claim that humanity is too flawed for a government to be so powerful. A statement "they are men that don't make mistakes" is quoted but everybody makes mistakes. The truer statement is "one is the loneliest number" and that, to me, is the truth.