The X-Files: Fight the Future
by Rob Bowman
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Actor: Blythe Danner, Bruce Harwood, David Duchovny, Glenne Headly, Jeffrey DeMunnDirector: Rob Bowman
Brand: Twentieth Century Fox
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language); French (Original Language)
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 122 minutes
Published: 1998
DVD Release Date: 2005-09-06
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
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DVD Review: "One man alone cannot fight the future"
Summary: 4 Stars
The X Files Fight the Future has the same feel as an episode of the series. There are many of the characters that you would see in the series, such as the Cigarette Smoking Man and The Well-Manicured Man. The film begins with the X Files closed, and Mulder and Scully assigned to other work. However, events happens which pique Mulder's interest into reopening the X-Files, and from here he and Scully take measures to find evidence into this.
The opening scene sets the stage for the film. In North Texas, in the year 15000 B.C., Neanderthals discover what appears to be an alien life form in a cave. A struggle ensues, and it appears as though the caveman has killed the alien. However, a black substance emits from the alien and runs up the body of the caveman. Years later, in present day, boys are playing around the same area when one of them discovers a human skull in the hole. The same black liquid comes up from the ground and goes up the boy's body; his friends, terrified, scamper off and try to locate help. When firemen come to rescue them, they suffer the same fate, and the hole is sealed, presumably to cover up evidence. The film shifts to Dallas, where Scully and Mulder are investigating a bomb threat atop a building downtown. The bomb explodes despite Mulder warning a bomb in time to save the building, and then Mulder learns that there is evidence someone wanted whatever was in the building destroyed. (Mulder later learns, from a paranoid doctor Kurtweil that those people in the building, including the boy, had already been dead before the bomb exploded, and that someone was trying to hide something). After being reprimanded during an investigation into the bombing, Scully seems intent on quitting, but it is Mulder who tries to convince her to continue on, his hunch being that all is not right, and that they need to keep going, trying to find the truth. Convincing her to accept his theories, Mulder investigates further, and comes across information from an informant that a virus may be spreading, creating a new extraterrestrial entity that the government is trying to cover up. Mulder goes to many extremes to try to find evidence that will finally prove his ideas correct; this takes Scully and Mulder to morgues, along highway roads, cornfields, mysterious buildings and even Antarctica. As probably expected, the plot does get a little convoluted at times and you will have to suspend some belief and maybe scratch your head, but most of the action is quite in line with the mood of the series, and I thought it worked well with the film.
There is also great chemistry between Mulder, the theorist, and Scully, the realist. Most series don't make great transitions, but I think this one did. Some say the ending may be anticlimactic; I thought it was perfect, and could not have ended any other way. My biggest beef was that, after this film's release in 1999, they let this go so long with a sequel. Why did it take ten years for them to come up with a follow-up movie, with all the momentum of the show killed? I haven't seen the second episode, I Want to Believe, but I hear that it wasn't very good, so it seems that the wait wasn't quite worth the wait.
Still, this episode is quite relevant to the series, and a great DVD to own for a price that is fairly cheap. Another great aspect of the film is that you can enjoy even if you weren't a regular viewer of the series. The disc also includes some extras, such as a making of documentary.
Description of The X-Files: Fight the Future
Thirty-seven thousand years ago, a deadly secret was buried in a cave in Texas. Now the secret has been unleashed. And it's discovery may mean the end of all humanity."The plague to end all plagues"
When a terrorist bomb destroys a building in Dallas, Texas, FBI Agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) are drawn into a dangerous conspiracy surpassing anything they've ever encountered. With the dubious assistance of a paranoid doctor (Academy Award -winner Martin Landau). Mulder and Scully risk their careers and their lives to hunt down a deadly virus which may be extraterrestrial in origin - and could destroy all life on earth. Their pursuit of truth pits them against the mysterious Syndicate, powerful men who will stop at nothing to keep their secrets safe, leading the agents from the cave in Texas, to the halls of the FBI, and finally to a secret installation in Antarctica which holds the greatest secret of all.
The definitive American television series of the '90s comes to the big screen with an anticlimactic whimper. And how could it be otherwise? Why should material so perfectly realized in one medium necessarily translate well into another? The series is crisply and thoughtfully executed in just about every detail, but the heart of its appeal lies in the elegant handling of complicated and evolving ongoing story lines, which is not something movies are especially good at. The big-screen drive for closure cramps the creative style, though it may also help nonfans get a grip on the proceedings. We do get some invigorating thrills and chills, however, and a more satisfying sense of the scale of an all-enveloping human-alien conspiracy than ever before, but there's no more plot development here than in an average two-part season-ending. FBI black sheep Mulder and Scully have been temporarily transferred from the X-Files project to an anti-terrorist unit to investigate an Oklahoma City-style bombing. They uncover a new wrinkle in the Syndicate/Cancer Man conspiracy--basically an attempt to help one bunch of (benign?) aliens fight off another bunch who want to colonize Earth. A spectacular, ice-bound finale thrillingly staged by series-veteran director Rob Bowman offers Mulder (but not a conveniently unconscious Scully) his first clear look at a You Know What, which in some quarters qualifies as an epochal event. Martin Landau offers the agents some crucial clues, and several familiar TV faces (including the Lone Gunmen and Mitch Pileggi's indispensable Assistant Director Skinner) turn up briefly to wink knowingly at faithful fans. --David Chute
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