Don't think I didn't watch the TV show.  I was a fan.  But after awhile, the teasing story lines left me frustrated and unsatisfied.  Just how many ways can you almost have paranormal activity and explain it away by natural means?  Well, after a ten year break, they tried again.  My rating:  $5.00 (1.-10.).

At the end of the TV series (and the first movie), poor Mulder's credibility is shot and pretty, red-headed, pouty Scully went back to medicine.  Gillian Anderson, really looking quite good (maybe better) than she did in the TV series, steps right back into the deeply conflicted part of academic physician versus emotional human.  The intellectual keeps winning....again.  If she ever really smiled as Scully, her face would break.  She's allowed more emotional depth by insinuation as we see her in bed with Mulder, moist-eyed pleading with him to stop chasing aliens, and her concern when he might be in danger.  She shouts at an FBI guy who refuses to help her, "Well, put someone on the phone who has the b--ls to help!".  She's also sarcastic to an aged, pedophile priest.  That's Scully in a nutshell.  Oh, her hair was just a beautiful shade of auburn with great, voluminous body.

Mulder comes back from deep in the snowcovered mountains, beard and all, when Scully tantilizes him with the FBI requesting his help.  She coerces him into helping and spends the rest of the movie trying to get him to stop.  Once on a trail, Mulder's better than a bloodhound at not getting distracted until he gets his man/woman/half+half.  Billy Connolly plays Father Joseph, the de-frocked priest living in a complex for sex offenders.  He's having visions of missing women, one of whom is an FBI agent.  That, my friends, is your paranormal content.  The line, "I want to believe." is heard several times by various characters in different situations.

Amanda Peet was a nice choice for the lead FBI field officer, Dakota Whitney.  It was her idea to bring Mulder back to help with the psychic priest.  Peet doesn't get much to work with but does what she can.  XZibit, actor and rapper, has a one-dimensional role as the FBI agent who gets to 'poo-poo' all the paranormal stuff.  He scowls alot.  British actor, Callum Keith Rennie (who has done Russian characters before) plays the gay Russian immigrant who kidnaps the victims for transplant purposes.  I won't tell you what he's transplanting here.  His menice is done very well -- nasty teeth like someone from a country where dental care isn't a priority, scruffy facial hair, good accent, etc.   Mitch Pileggi does a cameo as FBI Assistant Director Walter Skinner.  He's the one who has the b--ls to help. 

It could be that the feel of a favorite old coat being taken out of mothballs comes from the fact that Chris Carter, originator of the series, co-wrote the script with Frank Spotnitz who also wrote and produced lots of the original series.  It's rated PG-13 and runs about 1 hour 45 minutes.  Scenes of human experimentation might be considered if you are thinking of bringing small children. 

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