Six years after the events of The X-Files series finale, former FBI agent Doctor Dana Scully is now a staff physician at Our Lady of Sorrows, a Catholic hospital, and treating a boy named Christian who has Sandhoff disease, a terminal brain condition. FBI agent Drummy arrives to ask Scully’s help in locating Fox Mulder, the fugitive former head of the X-Files division, and says they will call off its manhunt for him if he will help investigate the disappearances of several women, including young FBI agent Monica Banan. Mulder and Scully are called back to duty by the FBI when a former priest claims to be receiving psychic visions pertaining to a kidnapped agent.
There may be no going back, as much as we might want to believe otherwise.
– Claudia Puig,
USA Today,
25 Jul 2008
fresh:
The movie gets into some pretty freaky territory in the third act, but for this casual fan of the series, it's a strong effort featuring some great characters.
– Richard Roeper,
Ebert & Roeper,
28 Jul 2008
rotten:
Lazy plotting, so-so performances and squandered ideas lead to only one diagnosis: there is no compelling reason to keep this moribund formula on a life-support machine.
– Nigel Floyd,
Time Out,
31 Jul 2008
rotten:
Casual filmgoers may wonder why theya(TM)ve just sat through whata(TM)s simply a decent episode writ large.
– David Fear,
Time Out New York,
31 Jul 2008
rotten:
Only a fan would be inclined to tolerate this dunderheaded mystery.