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Good, but not as good as it should have been!
by Melissa (movies profile)
Jul 28, 2008
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7 people found this review helpful
I can't really believe Carter and crew had six years to come up with this movie. Don't get me wrong, I liked it. It was a really good and slightly longer episode; and I always liked the episodes. I just would have thought with all of that time they could have written these characters a little better. Maybe the writers were out of practice.
Spoiler alert:
I truly don't think that after all the time Mulder and Scully had been on the lam and by all accounts in the beginning of the film created a really sweet and mature relationship that Scully would just say it's over because of his pursuit of this case...and his sincere belief that he needed her help. While I understand she had other concerns too, I just don't believe she would have thrown away such a hard fought love and relationship. And then he just accepted it! It was fairly ridiculous. What she said and what she did were, of course, not the same, because Scully can't leave Mulder to his own devices and he does need her. Can't the writers make her smart in all aspects of her life? Why just Science. Oh I remember, they don't write women that way for movies. I had hoped that Scully was an exception to that unfortunate hollywood rule.
Despite my frustrations on the relationshipo faux tension, overall this is well worth a trip to the theater. Probably more than once. But Carter really needs to get more review on his script next time. His stunted and overly dramatice adolescent views of relationships are too much on display when it comes to this particular movie. |
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