The X-Files: Fight the Future (PG-13)
Same TV show sci-fi on a king-sized f/x budget.
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- Studio: Fox Home Video
- Directed By: Rob Bowman
- Cast: David Duchovny, Martin Landau, Gillian Anderson
- Running Time: 122 minutes
- Release Date: 06/19/1998
- Video/DVD Release Date: 01/23/2001
- Genre: Science Fiction
- MPAA Rating: PG-13
- MPAA Explanation: some intense violence and gore.
Parents need to know
Families can talk about the difference between the TV show and the movie. Would it be better if there were hard-and-fast answers? How about the world and the political climate since The X-Files became popular? Does its message of endless conspiracy and shadowy cabals manipulating events still look appealing in a "Homeland Security" climate? Do you trust the government to tell the truth about UFOs? What about September 11th and Iraq, then? And is the comparison even fair?
Message
Social Behavior:
Though government authorities are repeatedly shown as untrustworthy, corrupt, and potentially evil, Agents Scully and Mulder uphold the FBI traditions and rules (including not abandoning a fellow officer). They also represent two different aspects of human inquiry. Mulder is imaginative and open to even the weirdest possibilities. Scully is more hard-headed and scientific. They have an incipient romance, not explored in depth here, but show professional appreciation and loyalty to each other.
Consumerism:
Drugs/Alcohol/Tobacco:
Agent Mulder gets drunk in a bar. A villainous character ("The Smoking Man") smokes a lot.
Violence
Alien claws gash humans; humans stab aliens. Explosions and gun shots.
Sex
A few off-color references. Agent Scully is supposed to be naked in suspended animation, but we don't see much.
Language
"S--t" and "asshole."
Common Sense says
What's the story?
Reviewed by Charles Cassady, Jr.
Is it any good?
As with the small-screen scripts, we get a tantalizing sci-fi plotline, full of questions, maddeningly unresolved by the finale, with shadowy villains still gloating that Mulder (who pops up mysteriously in Arctic for an especially farfetched and mystifying climax) still don't know what's really going on. If he doesn't, neither do we, and the show's repeated message to "trust no one," especially government authorities, starts to seem a little stale and lazy. When a drunken Mulder urinates on an alley poster for Independence Day, it may be a clue to what the filmmakers here thought of that simple-minded blockbuster. At least it had a storyline any average viewer could follow.
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