Did you dig it? ... The X-Files: I Want to Believe
More than a decade ago, the success of The X-Files on TV was enough to convince Welsh songstresses to croon about Mulder and Scully, while FHM voted Gillian Anderson the world's sexiest woman. These days, David Duchovny is a rare presence on the big screen, while Anderson is reduced to appearing in second rate horrors opposite Danny Dyer.
So it's perhaps no major surprise that the critics are not overly fond of the pair's second big screen outing, the tale of a paedophile priest (Billy Connolly) who claims to be receiving psychic visions relating to a kidnapped agent.
"I Want to Believe is too little, too late: a timid stab at reviving 1990s terror tropes," writes the Daily Telegraph's Sukhdev Sandhu, while Rolling Stone's Peter Travers moans: "In not knowing who it needs to please, I Want to Believe pleases no one."
Emma Morgan in Total Film writes: "That breathy, melodramatic style of acting that works so well across 32-odd inches feels helplessly hammy when projected onto a [big] screen," while our own Catherine Shoard suggests: "Even the most devout X-Files fan may have their faith tested by this snoozy addition to the franchise."
How about you? Did this latest X-Files outing make you want to believe? Or was this insipid film enough to make you cast off the yoke of faith?
