It’s a pity that six years were sufficient to lock the X-Files. Although they are back, all covered in snow and mystery, it seems that summer is not their season. Either the off-putting reviews had a strong impact on moviegoers, or the film’s already traditional paranormal approach was well surpassed by the easygoing and down-to-earth style of comedies, “The X-Files: I Want to Believe” debuted only on the fourth spot this past weekend and the movie’s future does not appear to be promising at all.

Set in ashen, isolated areas in Somerset, West Virginia, the plot portrays several unfathomable disappearances that stimulate the FBI to locate Dr. Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson), who is now working at a hospital, and ask her to lend them a hand in tracing her former partner and the fugitive ex-leader of the X-Files division, Fox Mulder (David Duchovny). Of course that the duo joins up again; it’s the whole thrill of the movie in my opinion. However, Mulder seems a bit skeptical at first, fearing that it is just an FBI plan intended to capture him. Scully immediately explains him that it cannot be a set up, because if it was, the FBI would have tried a long time ago to hunt him down. Thus, the couple is back on track in their attempt of finding the responsible people or creatures for the enigmatic abductions, including the kidnap of an FBI agent.

The film is an abnormal pick for a summer smash hit. Located at the heart of nowhere, in the middle of winter, its atmosphere is generally gloomy as it doubts the objects and probity of the characters. In addition to this, lacking the juicy outlook or special effects which essentially describe this season’s films, “The X-Files: I Want to Believe” may be easily distinguished as a production that hinges on reflection more willingly than vision.

Nonetheless, moviegoers definitely prefer the later and this may be the main reason why the “X-Files” was short of success, despite the popularity the TV series used to have.

In spite of the fact that Scully and Mulder returned to their roles in order to walk in the shoes of the skeptic and the believer, their contentions regarding blind devotion and other subjects concerning belief may strike the series’ fans as too familiar. This negative point even leaves us wondering if the movie aims to stagnate or to progress. Whatever the case may be, it is very far from making us believe. Nevertheless, “X–Files” does a wonderful job in intertwining separate story lines, without leaving a gap between the end of the small screen series and the moment portrayed in the big screen production.

Six years may not appear to be a long period of time for some, but for a movie they are actually too much. Admirers grow up or change their likes and dislikes. They forget or overlook. They move backwards or forwards. Unfortunately for the “X-Files”, “I Want to Believe” is not an exception and the producers can be blamed only for waiting too long to release the film.