The second feature spun off from the hugely popular 1993-2002 television series plays like a stand-alone episode rather than drawing on the show's complex and sometimes muddled mythology, which makes it more accessible to newcomers and occasional viewers than 1998's THE X-FILES. But like the first film, it isn't a patch on the series' best episodes, and on its own merits it's an okay thriller whose influences will be all-too clear to B-movie buffs.
Six years after FBI agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson), who were thrown together to investigate cases that defied (or seemed to defy) ordinary explanations, abandoned the so-call...
Released:
2008
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
105 mins