I didn't have much expectation of the movie, but I was hoping for a much bigger version of the TV show. However the movie was just like any other episode of the television show, just the normal ordeal that Mulder and Scully went through before. When the movie was over I didn't have a feeling like I was watching a movie for two hours. There were no big stakes for Mulder and Scully to overcome. There were just the normal, for the TV show, stakes about Scully's disbelieve in the paranormal and Mulder's inability to not believe the paranormal. This, however, is not enough when so much of the exact same thing has been worked out so many times in the nine years of the TV show. I feel that for a TV show to really be made into a successful movie, there has to be changes made to the scale, to the main plot and the main characters' challenges. The reason why Star Trek 2 was so successful is the big change of the scale the characters' challenges and plot compared to the TV show. I was just excepting something much more. Maybe Chris Carter should have stepped down as director and handed the director chair to a movie director.
Review of The X Files: I Want to Believe
