The X Files 2: I want to Believe (Chris Carter 2008)
Posted on September 19 at 17.42, 2008 by Eric Mahleb
There is something about thrillers and winter, or at least about psychological suspense and winter. There have been plenty of effective thrillers that take place in warm exotic places, but when it comes to the bizarre and the psychologically disturbing, there is nothing like a cold, dark and wintry setting to enhance the fright factor and overall unsettling effect. The Jacket, Insomnia, Misery, A Simple Plan, and Affliction come to mind, as do The Shining and Les Rivieres Pourpres.
This second film based on the successful and inspirational series of the same name that ran from 1993 to 2002, has left a lot of its paranormal frills at the door and instead uses a trimmed down, modest approach that revolves around Stem Cell Therapy, genetic engineering and organ trafficking. It also offers the usual Mulder Scully debate between science and religion, rationalism and empiricism and whether any of it is in fact enough to satisfy the need that humans have to believe in something to explain what they don’t understand…
The X Files 2 is one of those films that in spite of being well crafted and entertaining for two hours somehow manages to leave the viewer with very little at the end.
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