The X Files

Mulder and Scully must fight the government in a conspiracy and find the truth about an alien colonization of Earth.

• Director: * Rob Bowman
  
• Genre:Action / Mystery / Sci-Fi / Thriller
• Runtime:123 minutes

Cast

David Duchovny : Special Agent Fox Mulder

Gillian Anderson: Special Agent Dana Scully
John Neville : The Well-Manicured Man
William B. Davis: Cigarette Smoking Man / CGB Spender
Martin Landau : Alvin Kurtzweil, MD
Mitch Pileggi : Assistant Director Walter Skinner

The film opens North Texas in 35,000 BC. Entering a cave, a Neanderthal man stumbles upon what appears to be a large, primal extraterrestrial lifeform. The two fight, and the caveman wins, stabbing the creature to death. In 1998, small-town Texas, a young boy (Lucas Black) falls down a hole in his backyard and finds a human skull. As he picks it up, black oil seeps out from the ground and slithers up his legs until it reaches his head, causing his eyes to turn black. Firefighters descend into the hole to rescue him but are presumably lost to the same fate. A team of biohazard-suited men in a helicopter, accompanied by several semi-trailers and a man named Ben Bronschweig (Jeffrey DeMunn), arrive on the scene.

FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) have been assigned to other projects since the closure of the X-Files. They are first seen assisting Special Agent in Charge (SAC) Darius Michaud (Terry O’Quinn) and his team as they investigate a bomb threat against a federal building in Dallas, Texas. When Mulder scouts out the building across the street, he discovers the bomb in a first-floor vending machine. While Michaud stays behind to disarm the bomb, Mulder and Scully evacuate the building. It becomes clear to the viewer (but not to the agents) that Michaud makes no effort to disarm the bomb, which ultimately explodes.

Returning to Washington, D.C., Mulder and Scully are chastised because four people were still in the building. They are scheduled separate hearings at which their job performances will be evaluated. That evening, Mulder encounters a paranoid doctor, Alvin Kurtzweil (Martin Landau), who explains that the four victims were already dead, and that the bomb was allowed to detonate to destroy the evidence as to how they died.

Mulder and Scully go to the morgue where the bodies are being held and find that Kurtzweil’s testimony is true. Returning to the crime scene in Texas, they follow a convoy of tanker trucks to a large cornfield surrounding two bright, glowing domes. When they infiltrate the domes, they find only a large, empty space. However, grates in the floor open up and a thick swarm of bees forces the agents out onto the cornfield. Soon black helicopters appear overhead, and the two make a harrowing escape back to Washington. Read more

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