During a routine FBI operation, special agents Dana Sculley and Fox Mulder discover a conspiracy by FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) to utilize a primordial virus as a new military weapon. They also discover each other in the interim. The story begins with an extra-terrestrial visit as old as the earth itself. Though frozen for innumerable ages, the aliens have a diabolical plan to use the human race as hosts for regeneration. The aliens (there is no clear view of them) have a familiar large-eyed look and a reptile-like agility. Also, they have a very nasty attitude. Their "blood" has a mission all it's own: to simultaneously infect and impregnate their hosts. The clandestine, and most mischievous, agency of the government gets involved and the next thing you know they're shipping tanker truck loads of this mother of all toxins to undisclosed locations. Probably to our hometown. The facts literally explode in front of your eyes. Fortunately for us, Fox Mulder, a Sam Spade for the new millennium, is putting together the pieces. Sculley, on the other hand, maintains her composure amidst the chaos. She complements Mulder's fanatical search for the truth with her fastidiousness and self-analysis. When the bodies of the first five victims of this ultimate plague are planted at the site of the domestic terrorist bombing, Oklahoma City; of course, Mulder and Sculley are blamed. This is engineered by those same secret government scoundrels. The Cigarette-Smoking Man has his evil little brown-stained fingertips in the middle of it. Will Sculley and Mulder save the world---or even their jobs? Lucky for us they get help from the illustrious Martin Landau and those three computer-crunching hackers. The cinematography was well done, using spectacular aerial and wide-angle shots. The film has a grittiness yet sheds a beautiful Chiaroscuro light on a frightened and uncertain world. Every pore of every player is visible, a hardened countenance due to a world of deceit and misinformation. Gillian Anderson appears ruddy enough for a Marlboro commercial. An actor such as Marlene Dietrich who demands particular lighting and camera angles would never allow the release of a scene where her face appears cracked and marred---especially at the end of the movie! But, I have to say, Gillian Anderson does it with defiance and still comes out a heart-throb. Transitions in the film are bolstered with the clever use of those in-your-face sounds made memorable even on the TV series. Chris Carter attempts to feed the senses as well as the mind. The quick banter of dialogue, jumbled at times, flatters the acting. The well-known TV characters seem slightly less plastic and more vulnerable on the silver screen, making this viewer more emotionally involved in their plight. The X-Files' stories always contain a familiar motif, events taken from the recent annals of parapsychology. Of course, what else would be in the files of Fox Mulder? He gives us the answers we need, delivering a rational explanation by linking the unknown with the known. We can feel safer when we realize the alien spaceship we saw last night is no greater threat than the political chicanery that's polluting our rivers. The terror of the unknown is brought down to a level we can understand. The world of Chris Carter is a dark, sinister one. There are enough deep shadows in this movie to hide twenty Iran-Contra Affairs. Is this the way things are now, or is this the future once the populace forfeits its power in government for a more comfortable couch? Fight the Future may be a plea to recognize our apathetic and uninformed state as citizens of the most powerful nation in the world. Where is John Q. Public in Chris
Carter's film? Unlike the world of Director Frank Capra, where the common man has the power
to change the world (See Meet John Doe, 1941), The X-Files: Fight the Future tells
that fight for freedom and truth is in the hands of two concerned government employees
with the skills to recognize the facts. But maybe we can all be a Sculley or Mulder if we
just choose to look? The truth is out there! Top of Page | Table of Contents | Home Page This web page and entire website ©
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