In “Present Day: North Texas,” a kid falls into the same cave, and slug-like beings slither into his nose and eye sockets. The film opens in “North Texas, 35,000 B.C.” (a long time before it was North Texas), with prehistoric men encountering violent, creepy, leaky beings in a cave. (There is a shot of the ruined building, its front blasted away, that evokes disturbing memories of the Oklahoma City tragedy that shot could have been removed from the film with absolutely no loss.) We already know something about the dead bodies. The alien conspiracy theorist Kurtzweil ( Martin Landau) tells Mulder some of the bombing victims were already dead, and the blast was a plot to account for their bodies. Yanked off their X-files and assigned to an anti-terrorism unit, they get involved in the explosion of a Dallas high-rise. FBI agents Fox Mulder ( David Duchovny) and Dana Scully ( Gillian Anderson) have been investigating a cover-up of aliens among us. The story involves, of course, Mulder and Scully, who call each other “Mulder!” and “Scully!” so often they must be paid by the word.
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Instead, producer-writer Chris Carter, who conceived the TV series, reassembles his basic elements in a glossy extravaganza that ends, apparently, with humankind facing precisely the same danger it did at the beginning. If it were, this would play more like a seminar on the works of Whitley Strieber. Since the underlying plot is completely goofy, it's probably just as well it's not spelled out.
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Like “ Mission: Impossible,” this is a movie that depends on surface, on mystery, on atmosphere, on vague hints and murky warnings. X-philes will probably be as puzzled at the end as an infrequent viewer like myself. It doesn't make much difference if you've seen every episode of the TV series, or none: The film is essentially self-contained, and that includes its enigmas. I'm not sure even the filmmakers can explain exactly what happens in the movie, and why. As a story, it needs a sequel, a prequel, and Cliff Notes. As pure movie, “The X-Files” more or less works.
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