THE X FILES: I WANT TO BELIEVE (1 DISC EDITION WITH IN SOUTH AFRICA

The feature film The X-Files: I Want to Believe is a satisfyingif unspectacular installment in the X-Files series, takingplace an unspecified time after the show's nine-year television run.Former agent Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) is now a doctor, while FoxMulder (David Duchovny) is being hunted by his former agency and livingin seclusion. He and Scully are summoned back by a case involving amissing agent and a former priest (Billy Connolly) who claims to beable to see clues to the agent's whereabouts psychically, though hisinitial search turns up only a severed limb. Don't expect the usualcast of characters; the FBI has completely turned over (except for theGeorge W. Bush portrait), and the only reason Scully and Mulder areback is because agent Dakota Whitney (Amanda Peet) remembers hissuccess on similar cases involving the inexplicable. Don't expect thesame rogues' gallery either; unlike the previous X-Files feature film, which was inextricably linked to the series' convolutedmythology arc (and served as a bridge between the fifth and sixthseasons), I Want to Believe is a stand-alone piece that makesuse of the series' roots in horror/sci-fi and moody Vancouver, B.C.,locales. Also unlike the previous film, which was almostself-consciously shot for the big screen, this film is on a smallerscale, like a double-length episode of the series. But it's still agood reminder of the creepy vibe that hooked fans for years. And therelationship between Mulder and Scully? It seems to have resumed prettymuch where it left off, at least when you take into account the longperiod of separation. But stick around for the end-credit sequence totake in all the possibilities for the future.