The X-Files: I Want to Believe: Difference between revisions

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It features series protagonists Fox Mulder and Dana Scully long after they abandoned the FBI and the X-Files; Scully is a doctor at a Catholic hospital concerned about the treatment options offered to a dying boy, and Mulder, still on the lam, lives as a hermit under Scully's protection, doing little more than collecting paper clippings. They are offered a chance at redemption, however, when the FBI requests their help in finding an old comrade, who has herself gone missing while investigating a series of mysterious disappearances. They are aided by an ex-priest and [[Pedophile Priest|convicted pedophile]] named Father Joe, who claims to receive psychic visions of the victims directly from [[God]], and about whom the agents have conflicting feelings.

The film is a stand-alone work in the tradition of the show's [[Monster of the Week]] episodes, and does not revisit the series' famous -- and still unresolved -- [[Myth Arc]]. At the box office, it was met with a thundering "meh" and received [[So OK Its Average|generally mediocre scores]] from film critics. Franchise creator [[Chris Carter]] had stated his intent to wrap up all dangling plotlines in a third film (to coincide with the supposed end of the world in 2012), but since ''I Want to Believe'' went out with a whimper, the series' future was uncertain. (At least until the [[The X-Files (2016 series)|2016 miniseries]] premiered.)

 

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* [[Aborted Arc]]: Scully and Mulder both appear to be completely unconcerned about the supposedly inevitable {{spoiler|extraterrestrial colonization of Earth coming in four years}}. It's not even ''mentioned''.