So why are the pair so afraid to use it?

Its not a bad film, just not a confident one.

It picks up with Mulder and Scully leading very different lives.

Where are the shadowy, nameless figures?

Where are the conspiracies?

Where, even, are the monsters of old?

Answer: nowhere to be seen.

YetI Want To Believedoes have its moments.

Yet the casting of Billy Connolly is a gamble that doesnt work.

Bluntly, this reviewer never bought him.

Thatd be a pity.

Rating:

3 out of 5