![]() It starts off with a boy falling into a pit and being attacked by hundreds of small, slug-like creatures that crawl into his eye sockets and over his eyes (don't bring the kids to this one). It is, at times, quite chilling in a subtle way, and at other times quite humorous and fun and thrilling. It's like a mystery set in the world of UFOs and alien encounters. It gets down to the meaty bits, although sometimes the plot left me in the dark and the ending started to get a bit crazy, which lowered my overall pleasure regarding the film. It strikes a chord that good sci-fi films have struck in the past. I admire it above all else for being able to do this. "The X-Files" has a harder task - it has to reach those who not only have never seen the show, but also those who may not love sci-fi too much, and it does a good job. I do not claim to be a huge fan of the science-fiction genre - I like softer sci-fi such as "The Terminator" - but I admire the hard sci-fi films that make an effort to reach those of us who many not be the most enthusastic sci-fi geeks. Scully and Mulder, the two FBI Agents (I think) from the famous television show of the same name, make their big-screen debut in a feature-length, theatrical film release that plays much more like a clever science fiction film than a stupid one. I got lost about 2/3 of the way through, but I still had a fun time. In fact, I think that even the strict fans of the television show may be a bit in the dark by the time the credits start to roll. But it doesn't matter, because I don't believe that there are any real twists in the plot or "revelations" like the extended title implies there may be. I, like many other critics who walked into "The X-Files" movie, fall into the latter category. There are two types of people in this world: Those that watch "X-Files," and those that do not. There is also an added scene in the video release with Mulder running down the street after the hospital scene.Also revealed is that when plans went awry, Mulder was intended, by his father, to seek the truth and reveal what had been done. In the scene with Mulder talking to the Well Manicured Man in the car, he reveals to Mulder that Samantha, Mulder's sister, was abducted by aliens at the request of her father, William Mulder, so she could be part of the colonization project, thus ensuring her survival in the colonization of Earth by the visitors.In the video release, we see it run off after it kills one of the cavemen, and when the other caveman gets up, he tracks it down and then kills it using the broken end of his torch. In the theatrical release we see it fight off one of the cavemen, killing it, and the other caveman gets up to see it lying on the ground draining out the black blood (or what fans know as black oil). In the opening scene you now see more of the alien.The video release has additional footage not shown in the theatrical release:
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