The X-Files TV show ran nine seasons from 1993 to 2002. Season five of Fox’s Golden Globe and Emmy-winning series The X-Files ended with its highest viewership ever, the X-Files division of the FBI within the show had just been shut down, and fans were eager to finally see the X-Files movie, which we learned was shot in during the break between seasons 4 and 5, but picked up right where season 5 left off: the X-Files were no more, but Mulder and Scully were still FBI Agents.
X-Files: Fight The Future starts with a prelude in 35,000 BC with a battle between a Neanderthal man and an alien. Yes, this movie begins with a caveman fighting an alien. Come on, do you really need to read any more? Just click the link to the left.
For those of you still with us, The movie continues with prelude part two taking place millenia later in the same location (an underground cave in North Texas) when a boy falls in the cave, inconveniently located in his backyard. There, the boy picks up a humanoid skull, and black oil runs up his legs and his eyes turn black. Soon after, we see a rescue squad of firemen going into the hole… Seriously, you know you want this on Blu-ray, just click.
Okay, so the tiny few of you that are still with us, you watch LOST, right? You know how Locke’s motivations of late are rather suspect? I mean, dude threw a knife into the back of the girl who seemed to be there to save the losties in the season 3 finale, right? Well you ever want know where Darlton got the idea to make him a creepy backstabber?
We finally rejoin Mulder and Scully as they are assisting Special Agent in Charge Darius Michaud (Terry O’Quinn, LOST) with a bomb threat in Dallas. Mulder checks out the building across the street and stumbles across the bomb in a soda machine. Locke Michaud goes to disarm the bomb as Mulder and Scully evacuate the building. They believe they have everyone out of the building but Michaud who has stayed behind to ostensibly disarm the bomb, but instead just stares at it until the timer reaches zero just like he would do at the end of LOST season two in the Swan hatch! “Live Together, Die Alone,” dude! . Act 1 ends with Mulder and Scully not being praised for saving lives, but chastised because four bodies were found in the wreckage: three firefighters and a young boy.
Cue the theme music!
X-Files: Fight The Future represents the absolute best of the X-Files franchise. Much of the show’s ongoing mythology is resolved or at least revealed in this movie. It contains all the best stars of the show giving some of their best performances in these roles to date. It has some awesome guest appearances, from the aforementioned Terry O’Quinn to Martin Landau (Space: 1999, Mission Impossible, Ed Wood) to John Neville (The Adventures of Baron Munchausen). The soundtrack contains some great songs as well, perhaps most notably was the Foo Fighters’ “Walking After You” which echoed the relationship between Mulder and Scully. (Also notable but absent from the movie itself was Filter’s epic cover of Three Dog Night’s “One”.)
Do you already own X-Files: Fight The Future on VHS and DVD? Me too! But X-Files: Fight The Future on Blu-ray is better than ever with 1080p HD resolution and Dolby Digital 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio. And now on Blu-ray, X-Files: Fight The Future has more extras than ever before.
Special Features
-Both the Theatrical and the Extended film versions
-Audio Commentary with Rob Bowman, Chris Carter, Frank Spotnitz and Daniel Sackheim
-Original 1999 Audio Commentary with Rob Bowman and Chris Carter
-BONUSVIEW Picture-in-Picture Commentary with Rob Bowman, Chris Carter, Frank Spotnitz and Daniel Sackheim
-Alternate Bee Sting Scene
–Blackwood: The Making of the X-Files: Fight the Future Featurette
-Visual Effects Featurette
-Scoring Featurette
-Original 1998 Making-Of Featurette
-Enhanced for D-Box Motion Control Systems (Can your home theatre chairs move with the action? This Blu-ray disc is compatible!)
-Gag Reel
-Still Galleries
The Bottom line is, this release is for every X-Files fan with a Blu-ray player, and if you don’t have Blu-ray capabilities already, maybe this is the very disc you were waiting for.
ComicsOnline gives X-Files: Fight The Future on Blu-ray 5 out of 5 alien conspiracies!
