I was never a huge fan of the X-files series but I was quite looking forward to this movie ever since I first saw the previews when at a movie theater in Paris. I just got the DVD in Shanghai and watched it just now. What can I say? Like the blogger at Apropos of Something I thought it was almost underwhelming its fairly mundane plot, which was gruesome but not nearly as government conspiracy/alien abductions heavy as one might have expected. And the movie did dispense with the whole mythology, which was nice. Like many others, I have my own theory of why the X-files theme song played when a picture of George W. Bush and J. Edgar Hoover appeared: because the FBI and government are all in cahoots with the aliens. Chris Carter might be insinuating that Bush is an alien himself.
It was strange, how unambiguous in certain regards was their relationship in the movie. They are sleeping together, cuddling, kissing. The dialogue was ok for the most part. None of the acting was really standout; everyone did their part and discharged their duties with the usual competence–nothing exceptional there. The plot moves but doesn’t quite twist and turn, it’s all fairly straight forward, the pacing and tension is simply created by the unfolding of certain events or the slow accumulation of clues, making it a fairly linear detective story.