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"The X-Files" is arguable the coolest TV show of the
90’s. Considering, you would think that with a big budget
instead of a TV budget and with two hours plus to develop the
story instead of 45 minutes, the "X-Files" movie would
be the greatest thing ever done. It’s not. It’s as
good as your average episode, but not much better.
In The X-Files: Fight the Future, we get a story that
takes part in the ongoing saga about the alien conspiracy to take
colonize the earth. In this episode we learn that the men who
have been organizing the event with the aliens have been betrayed.
The conspiratory men, led by the Cancer Man (William Davis), had
been led to believe that humans would not be harmed in the alien
colonization process. A new alien virus, however, reveals that
the aliens kill the human host that they use to develop themselves
in. The whole thing is suspected by Mulder (David Duchovny) who
tries to sort the whole thing out with Scully (Gillian Anderson)
at his side. In the process Scully is infected and Mulder goes
into the depths of the alien base in the Antarctic to save her.
The story is as tense as "The X-Files" always is and
we do get some nicer sets and explosions than we usually do in
the series. As is tradition, The X-Files brings up more
questions than it does answers. Some of them feel like they’re
building up to something greater and some of them just feel like
plot holes. The scene where Mulder is told to go to Antarctica
and shows up on the continent with a snowmobile 48 hours later
is almost laughable. Just as strange is how he and Scully get
back off the continent alive, considering the snowmobile ran out
of gas and they’re both weak, tired and freezing.
Even more troubling are the emotional motivations behind Mulder
and Scully that cause their distress. It often feels contrived,
like it’s just an addition to the background so it isn’t
all plot. But I never feel I understand why Scully wants to leave
at the beginning, considering the years of evidence of aliens
and the supernatural that she’s been through. Equally strange
is why Mulder wants her to leave near the end.
Nevertheless, questions are the trademark of "The X-Files".
Despite the aforementioned questions, and many more, the script
is clever and the film is fun. It’s really too bad they
haven’t made any more.
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