What's amazing about X-Files: I Want To Believe is the discrepancy between how much female viewers like this movie compared to male viewers based on the IMDb user ratings - 8.1 for females (295) to 7.2 (1,361) for an weighted average of 7.3 which in itself is quite remarkable for this movie. It also seemed to be skewed towards the younger audience which is also a remarkable trend in that this movie didn't have the big production values nor the exciting conspiracy theory nor the typical summer action-thrills. What makes this movie special is that it appears to be a last harrah, a positive send off, soft landing to a final conclusion of this franchise. Waiting in the wings is the television premiere of Fringe on September 9 on the same network that brought you the X-Files that also involves the FBI on strange events. The X-Files: I Want To Believe brings to the screen a more naunced acting performance by David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson and focuses more on their lives, their thoughts, their direction in life like James Bond in Never Say Never (1983) where an aging James Bond performs in a non-authorized version of the series that is more low-key than the franchise James Bond movies were offering its audiences. The X-Files: I Want To Believe is as much about Mulder and Scully as the storyline. The emotional struggles in this movie and the younger audience's reaction to the movie is a welcomed and unexpected positive sign for this new generation and in an strange way reflects what the movie's message in itself is saying. Now talk about an X-File oddity - the very nature of the interaction between the younger audience and this movie is itself an X-File experience. How more compelling of a statement that The Truth is Out There can you get? Just look around at your children and teenagers.

I have to say the movie doesn't have so much mythology as the TV series. It's ok if you have seen no TV series, you can still get it. It's better you google about Samantha, William and Skinner to enjoy it better. Some more about this Movie

When I heard that a new X-Files movie was being released, and that it followed the stand-alone episode plot arc rather than the mythology, I was excited. All of my favorite episodes were stand-alones. I just loved the balance of conspiracy theories and full-fledged postmodern campiness that characterized the show in the 90's.

I was extremely disappointed in the film, which I felt was simply too mundane given the bar the series has raised for itself. The whole thing seemed like a denouement. How exciting is someone who receives visions after the audience has already been introduced to one who reads minds? How wide is the line that divides good entertainment and ironic distance (as in the Brady Bunch house and Hollywood episodes) from pretentious dreck?

All and all, the movie is slightly enjoyable as a nostalgic piece; however, it fails to capture the magic of the original series.