Todd’s Movie Blog

I have never been a big fan of The X-Files.  I watched the first couple of seasons, but dropped out when they never explained how Mulder got out of the fire bombed rail car from the cliffhanger ending of season two.  I would periodically pop back in through it’s run to see what was happening but would just shake my head and turn it off after a few minutes, the shape shifting aliens just didn’t work for me.  So I’m more than a little surprised to find myself reading Roger Ebert’s review of the new film The X-Files: I Want To Believe and as he is describing the plot and the complex moral issues involved, I’m thinking that sounds pretty good, I might like to see that.  At which point I stop and say to myself, “What are you thinking, you hate The X-Files!”  Despite his health problems and giving up his beloved show, when Ebert is on his game, he can make you want to see a movie you normally wouldn’t be caught dead in.  He’s just that good.