Despite two awful reviews and a lacklustre one, and Mark Kermode on The Culture Show (see! I don’t just watch it because of his co-presenter!) saying in effect they have (warning! contains spoilers!) jumped the shark by getting Mulder & Scully together… I went to see The X-Files: I Want to Believe last night.
Yes some of it is corny. Yes it is just like a long episode of the TV show. Yes you’d be forgiven for standing up, applauding and walking out at the point early on when Mulder says “I want to believe”. Yes, they may have jumped the shark by getting M&S together, spoiling the delicious unresolved sexual tension between them that kept us watching the TV show for so long – but if someone said to me “do you fancy watching a feature-length episode of The X-Files on the big screen in the Empire Leicester Square”, then the answer is “Hell, yes!”.