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The X-Files is a feature film extension of the gasp-inducing television series. Bridged between the fifth and six seasons, the film gives a slightly more piercing analysis of the alien colonization that made the television series so interesting. We join Agent Mulder and Scully in their post-X files assignment in Dallas in which a supposed terrorist bombing is connected with the strange death and disappearance of four victims in a Texas small town. Equipped with the appearances of acting veterans Martin Landau and Blythe Danner, The X Files moves quickly and confirms some of the answers that the previous television seasons created. However, it fails to stand on its own as feature film.

Much of the film feels like an extended television episode or special television film. As a result, if you are not acquainted with the television seasons, some of the characters and plot points will allude you because they have a rich and complex past background to them. Being unacquainted also prevents one from understanding the severity of certain actions or revelations as the investigations of such actions or revelations are found in the series are foreign to those unacquainted.

For those familiar with the series, the problem with the film is that while the film fulfills the genre standard of suspense and intrigue, it does not make a massive difference on the general flow of the series. It verifies the suspicions of Fox Mulder on the issue of a government cover-up of the existence of aliens and exposes the truth of the alien pathogen for the members of Syndicate (a group government conspirators dedicated to concealing the colonist alien plans). However, the film does not take the audience to a point of no return. It seems no "major" impact is made on any of the characters and the much of the events that transpire seem like business as usual.

While the film is successful at certain points such as the dark look, horror-esque feel and moving storyline, it fails to become a long-lasting impact on the series as it only confirms things we were already suspicious of. What is most indicative of the film's lack of an epic progression in the story arc is the fact that there have been more successful episodes in the television series with more important events than this film. That doesn't qualify it as a terrible addition to the X-files franchise but it does make it a disappointment on a number of levels. This film is followed by The X-Files: I Want to Believe, which completely ignores the series alien mythology storyline and makes passive changes during the period between the series finale and the new film to facilitate the film's storyline. It emerges as a decent detective film with paranormal elements but like its predecessor, it comes off a disappointment on a number of levels.Get more detail about X-Files.