Now I wasn't an extreme fanatic of the show, but I remember when the first film came out, way back when. I got really into it because it didn't seem to rely on too many previous plot points from the show. It was an entirely separate story that eventually was flushed out through the series after its premiere. I wish I would have continued watching the show, but it ended up being one of those things where you watch with good intentions, but eventually stray away.
I was in high school when the X-files came to their last season and remember watching a few of the newer episodes featuring new agent Robert Patrick. David Duchovny apparently called it quits which opened an interesting plot line of Gillian Anderson's Scully looking into his abduction. It got a little over the top with some half man/bat plot lines but still managed to tell a few good and creepy story.
When X files 2 was released I didn't rush the theaters to see it, because the trailer looked so so. I ended up waiting for DVD release and watched it one cold and lonely Saturday night by myself. Since the weather in Minnesota pretty much replicated the snowy scenes in this film, the landscape didn't really impress me. I liked the re-introduction of the characters, Mulder being a crazy conspiracy theorist and Scully a surgeon in a religious hospital. I never watched the series finale, so I can't say how it ended for these characters so I was a little confused by the relationship Mulder and Scully had. I'm pretty sure they lived together as Mulder was originally wanted by the FBI.
X-Files 2, opens with a crazy older man running across an empty, snow filled field until he stops and points to a spot where they find evidence of a missing woman. After we are introduced to our two protagonists again, we learn that the FBI need Mulder and Scully's help because of a common tie with their old case files. Of course neither want to help, but with a little persuasion Scully manages to get Mulder sucked back in it, while vowing she is "done" with that part of her life. It eventually becomes a murderous, missing persons case where they find limbs from woman and trace it back to particular characters who are building a woman's body for a cancer stricken gay man. Somehow they've mastered removing a human head while connecting it to a different body.
My major criticism is that things just kind of fell into place and Mulder (who hates the FBI) just kind of falls back into his role without really questioning it. While he starts to believe a man who claims he has a psychic link to the killers, everyone else doubts. I guess it's realistic, but also kind of annoying that these people who hired Scully and Mulder start to doubt their every move. Many people in the film start contradicting themselves and end up with no real solution to any of their questions. I guess I liked the fact that you aren't explained everything, but at the same time there was too much "I want to believe" moments that started dragging the film out.
Verdict: This film seemed to be strictly for the fans and give them a reunion everyone had been craving for a while. The entire movie felt like a longer episode from the show and didn't really interest me like the previous film. While, some of the thriller/suspense moments were interesting, I didn't find the woman's limbs/cancer villains too enthralling. I liked how they incorporated more of a dramatic element between Scully's morals and Mulder's crazy conspiracies, but the Science Fiction aspect just didn't cut it. It was nice to see both actors again, especially Gillian Anderson who really should be in more films. She has an innocent sensuality about her and can actually act. As for David Duchovny, well he pretty much acts the same in everything you watch but that's just my opinion.
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