The X-Files Movie Review 1998

The TV series' fifth-season cliffhanger continues in the big screen adaptation, which supposedly has a plot clear enough so viewers unfamiliar with the series can still figure out what's going on. Creator Chris Carter uses the show's "mythology" episodes to have FBI agents Mulder (Duchovny) and Scully (Anderson) battling a global conspiracy involving the Cigarette-Smoking Man (Davis) and an international syndicate, colonizing aliens, and related paranormal perplexities. The big budget allows for some big action sequences and special effects and the two leads have a comfortable partnership.

Distribution

Fox Home Entertainment, PO Box 900, Beverly Hills, CA 90213, Phone: (310)369-3900, Toll-free: 888-223-4FOX, Fax: (310)369-5811, URL: http://www.foxmovies.com/index1.html, Remarks: Also known as Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment

Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 120 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Sci Fi, Adapted from Television, FBI, It's a Conspiracy, Man!, Alien Beings--Vicious, Boom!, Top Grossing Films of 1998, Unexplained Phenomena, Dallas

Screenplay

Chris Carter, Frank Spotnitz

Cast

David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Martin Landau, William B. Davis, John Neville, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Blythe Danner, Mitch Pileggi, Terry O'Quinn, Jeffrey DeMunn, Lucas Black, Glenne Headly

Cinematography

Ward Russell

Director

Rob Bowman

Music

Mark Snow

Producer

Chris Carter, Daniel Sackheim, Lata Ryan, Ten Thirteen, 20th Century-Fox