Review – The X Files

At one point I set myself up with the goal of seeing at least one film beginning with each letter of the alphabet within the space of a single year. For most letters, this wasn’t much of a challenge at all. X, on the other hand, had me pretty desperate by the end of October. Part of the hype on this TV-series-spawn was that it had been deliberately designed so that even folks who didn’t follow the small-screen adventures of the fearless paranormal agents could still appreciate the movie. I’m not sure that I disagree with this as a basic premise, though certainly there were some in-jokes from the series (things that the only X Files watcher in the room caught and nobody else got). Rather, I tend to believe that the need for a firm grounding in the first five seasons of the popular Fox network program had more to do with building up a tolerance for plot-free meandering from one semi-bizarre situation to another. Want to have some fun with this film? Watch carefully and try and count all the other sci fi and horror movies they’re ripping off. See if desperate