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Please, sir, may I have another?
PostedJuly 26, 2008
RomanAClef
from Ugly Sprawl, NJ
My only problem with this movie is that I had to wait so long for it. If the suits at Fox could have gotten their act together to greenlight this project four or five years ago, this would be a perfect X-files movie, and we would most likely have seen another one by now. As it is, we were starved for six years and then fed an appetizer. A succulent and tasty appetizer, but not an entree by any means. For those criticizing the "monster" element of the story, one must take into account that the payoff wasn't the reason for the existence of this story. Exploring the relationship between Mulder's and Scully's respective ways of practicing their faiths and how the differences between each affected their relationship to each other is what was on the board here. Everything else was just an outward manifestation of that inner conflict within the unit made up of these two characters. This was not a suspense/thriller so much as it was a meditation on the things that pull us together and drive us apart and how it's often a razor-fine line between the two. It was an enormous payoff for this viewer (and spouse and niece of this viewer as well), but left me clamoring for another. And another (Mr. Carter, do you think we can get two more before December, 2012?). As far as the box office goes, I'm afraid this quiet, intimate, dark, snowy film is going to be lost in the sturm und drang of this summer's blockbuster season, but here's hoping the international and home video sales prod the corp-tards at Fox to pony up for at least one more. I know I'll be filling a seat.
Yes, I recommend this movie.
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