Sue’s Sanctuary

OK, Before I pass on my judgement.. anyway, we in this world like to judge, so I guess since I can’t beat them, I’ll join them in pointing the fingers and judging, I’ll tell you this: I love X-Files series back in school and so naturally, I’m all hyped up for the movie, more so after I won 4 free passes to watch the premiere, of all things, I get to watch the movie before anyone else in the country.. ok, maybe with the hundreds of other people at the same time but you get my point.

So when the movie opens nationwide on July 24, Thursday, my hubby and I, each brought a fren to make up the 4 persons and off we marched into the movie in anticipation.

Gillian Anderson returned as the sultry Dana Scully and Fox Mulder, of course is still the same hunky guy, albeit with a lot of facial hair at the opening scenes.. which he quickly shaved off and showed the good-looking clean-shaven David Duchovny in the flesh (facial flesh, that is).

SPOILERS AHEAD

It started promisingly, with suspense and thriller elements, blood, attacks, struggle and mystery, complete with severed limbs (in this case, carefully amputated arms) .. the two ex-FBI agents are retired (hints of them being forced to retire throughout the move), and Dr Dana Scully is back to a hospital, practising medicine and very attached to a young boy, and another hint of her son, William, in passing remark, hinting at her pregnancy which is assisted by aliens in the earlier storyline for hardcore fans to remember.

Anyway, it slowly but steadily climbed up towards a climax but before you could even be shocked at the climax, the movie took a downward spiral turn for the worse.. the ending is a safe, mediocre one, nothing shocking, no ET, no aliens, nothing supernatural.. I mean, psychic powers with hints of God’s powers in the working is hardly X-Files in all its full glory.. hardly a deserving plot for a ‘come-back movie’ for the popular series back in the 90s. I would not be spending money on this movie.. luckily I got it for free.

Advise is to wait for the DVD to be released. But then again, this is just my opinion, watch at your own risk of disappointment.  Even the music lack the spooky element after the remix or whatever modernisation they did to the theme song.  Bummer.