Ned Hibberd's Blog

Hmmm, you're right. A former NASA astronaut who believes. Now that could carry some clout. Fox Mulder would be proud...

Ned

I will, chassan, but remember, it's my wife who's the fan, not me! So my review may be biased.

Or should I say... HER review would be biased. MINE would be perhaps TOO UNBIASED!!

Ned

My wife loved it, and I enjoyed it as well.

Danielle describes the movie as having the X-Files feel without being about the supernatural.

(If you saw the first X-Files movie, you'll recall that Mulder, in many ways, did finally find "the truth" about his sister, aliens and so much more, so Carter needed a different angle for this movie...which I think he did so successfully.)

In the movie, in addition to the FBI mystery at hand, the story was about the relationship between Mulder and Scully.

My wife found a review of the movie that she liked and agreed with. Here it is:

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"...For those criticizing the "monster" element of the story, one must take into account that the payoff wasn't the reason for the existence of this story. Exploring the relationship between Mulder's and Scully's respective ways of practicing their faiths and how the differences between each affected their relationship to each other is what was on the board here. Everything else was just an outward manifestation of that inner conflict within the unit made up of these two characters. This was not a suspense/thriller so much as it was a meditation on the things that pull us together and drive us apart and how it's often a razor-fine line between the two. It was an enormous payoff for this viewer..."
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I would recommend the movie to all of you. So grab a bag of popcorn and go see it!!!

Ned