XFiles Review

This is the second "X-Files" movie taken from the TV series, which ran 202 episodes over 11 seasons or so.

David Duchovny's back with Gillian Anderson working with the FBI again, tracking kidnappers and fiendish Russian surgeons doing Frankenstein-like operations.

Likable Amanda Peet is on hand, taking a supporting role for a change, playing the lead federal agent on the case.
 
And also investigating the mysterious kidnappings is Billy Connolly, the Scottish actor comedian playing a disgraced priest, suspected of having psychic powers.

And by the way, it's called a standalone version of the story, meaning you don't have to have seen the TV series.

Nonsense!  To understand the complex relationship between these two and to fall into the dark mood of the series, you have to have been a fan.

Movie critic Jeffrey Lyons said, "The X-Files: I Want To Believe" may please fans of the cult show, but the story moves along too slowly and deliberately for non-fans. David Duchovny as always underplays Muldur and his scenes with Gillian Anderson as Scully are intense. But it has no payoff and left me uncaring. I'm Jeffrey Lyons, NBC News.