#THE XFILE FILES MOVIE#

It’s a strange missed opportunity to fully use an actress who’s so able to sell bad material-her reply to the question “Do you miss it all… the X-Files?” is the new season’s most beautifully acted-but makes sense.

It’s worth noting that while Duchovny is declaiming, Gillian Anderson, as Scully, is sidelined her plotline has her abandoning a new life as a surgeon to re-team with Mulder, but she feels less like the equal partner she always was than like an adjunct or occasional hang-out buddy. “They police us, and spy on us, and tell us that makes us safer,” Mulder announces at one point.

A character in the season premiere played by Joel McHale draws Mulder and Scully into a new investigation simply by being himself-an Alex Jones-style conspiracy theorist whose line of work lends itself to trading long monologues with Mulder about the ills of the world. After all, motivated writing would get us to care about Mulder’s quest to find the truth without quite so much exposition.Īnd exposition is what the new X-Files does best.

#THE XFILE FILES MOVIE#

The series begins with Mulder ( David Duchovny) reading a voice-over about everything that happened over the course of the series, which is not coincidentally the way that the Sex and the City movie began, too. That makes the new adventures of Mulder and Scully, a 6-episode miniseries airing Mondays after a launch Jan.

The xfile files