Starring: Gillian Anderson, David Duchovny.
With: Martin Landau, William B. Davis, Mitch Pileggi, John Neville...

Even though I knew something about the movie before I first saw it (by reading magazines, spending a lot time on the Internet and watching TV programs that had something about it), I hardly knew nothing. I knew - and expected - that it would be good, but it was more than that. It was a lot more than I expected.
*I'M WARNING YOU*, if you haven't seen the movie and would like to watch it without knowing the plot details or would like to read a non-X-Phile-review, you really should not read this one.

The movie starts in the year 35 000 BC. Cavemen go in a cave and while exploring it, they get attacked by an alien. It kills one of them, the other one kills it and the black "oil" coming out of the alien takes control of him. Then, in the same place but in present day, a little boy falls in that cave and is also infected by the black oil-thing. The same happens to the firemen who try to save the boy. Men with covered suits come and take the bodies away. Then we get a first look at Scully and Mulder, who have been assigned to find a bomb from a federal building after shut-down of the X-files. They are joking and sort of teasing each other, which is fun but non-typical X-Files-thing. Scully succeeds to pull a trick on Mulder so he has to buy her a drink. The drink machine isn't working and Mulder guesses there's something wrong (he's a good guesser, isn't he!?). He opens the machine and finds out the bomb is in there, and it'll explode after 14 minutes. The door got locked as he opened the machine (I don't know whether opening the machine caused that or not but it's locked anyway) so he calls Scully on his cell phone (the cell phone is made by Nokia, it's a Finnish company! I'm sort of proud of that). Scully first thinks Mulder is joking but soon realizes he's telling the truth and tells the rest of the team to get the building evacuated - and fast. Then they get Mulder out of that room and rush out of the building. The team leader stays there and tries to stop the bomb but it's too difficult and it explodes killing the leader and apparently some people who didn't get out of there in time: a boy and some firemen. For some reason Mulder and Scully get blamed from the accident and in the hearing kept after that, Scully is told that they will get separated and get new assignments in new places. When she tells that to Mulder (who was late from the hearing), she also lets him know that if that happens, she will quit the FBI. Mulder gets upset about that, goes to a bar and has a little too many drinks. That's where people who haven't watched the show get to know Mulder's background: he tells the bartender about the conspiracy and his work to find out the truth about it, and that nobody of course believes him, and they call him Spooky. The bartender obviously doesn't believe him either because she says he's had enough and tells him to go home. Mulder is going to WC but it's "out of order" and he goes to an alley behind the bar. There he is approached by a man, Dr. Kurtzweil (Martin Landau) or something, who says he is an old friend of Mulder's father. He reveals to him that the boy and the firemen who "died" in the explosion were already dead before the accident and the one who put the bomb on that building was trying to cover up what really happened to those bodies. He tells Mulder to dig further. Mulder doesn't seem to believe him but takes a cab and goes to Scully's apartment asking her to come with him to where the bodies are kept. Reluctantly Scully goes with him and even agrees to do an autopsy to one of the bodies after they notice that the cause of death said in the papers is completely made up, they haven't even done an autopsy. She finds out the body has been infected by a virus she can't recognize. Then somebody finds out that she is in there (she isn't of course supposed to be) and they come to look for her. She hides in a refrigeration room and while in there, Mulder (who has gone home leaving Scully alone in there! Not so nice of him!) calls at her cell phone to tell her that they're going to Dallas (where the boy fell in the cave) to investigate this conspiracy thing. The men come in to the refrigeration room but Scully hides and they don't find her. In the meanwhile, Cigarette-Smoking Man and his men are studying one of the bodies that were infected by the black oil-thing. Somebody notices that there's a big hole in the body. He realizes that the virus has used the body as sort of a womb. It has mutated and is now a living creature with hands and legs. Back to Mulder and Scully, in Dallas they find bones taken from the cave and find out that the bones have the same thing Scully found from the body, and they go to the place the cave is - or was. The spot where the cave was, is covered by new grass and a playground. Some little boys come around and tell Mulder and Scully that men in big tanker trucks left a while ago and point a direction where they went (at first the boys won't tell anything because they were told not to, but when Scully and Mulder show their badges, boys agree to tell their information). The agents jump in their car and start driving to direction the boys had shown. After a while they come to a crossroads which causes a problem: Whether to go right or left? Mulder decides they go straight ahead and so they drive a long time and end up to a railroad cross. Scully is kind of mad at Mulder: she should go to a hearing and here she is, in the middle of nowhere, a LONG way from DC. Before they start really shouting to each other, a train goes by. A train with tanker trucks on it. Mulder and Scully forget their argument at once, get in the car and drive after the train. By following it they get in to a cornfield with two big white domes on it. They go through the cornfield to the domes and get in. It's a big weird room with panels almost everywhere. As Mulder tries to listen through the panels on the floor, they suddenly open and THOUSANDS of bees come through. Mulder and Scully take each other's hand and run out without getting stung (amazing, isn't it?!). After noticing two helicopters in the air with searching-lights on they run to the cornfield, trying to get to their car. Scully leaves behind so they lose each other. Mulder calls Scully's name and as he gets no answer, he yells again and again. Scully is also trying to find Mulder, and when she hears him calling, she starts yelling his name too. After a few "Scully!" "Mulder!" "Scully!" -yells they find each other (I thought they'd hug in a relief of finding each other, but anyway, you can see they're really glad to be together again), get in the car and drive away. In the meantime, the syndicate is thinking that Mulder has seen too much, he must be eliminated. One of them says that they can't kill him, but they can take away from him what's most valuable to him, what he can't live without (meaning Scully, of course, and that's quite true - he most likely couldn't live without her). Back to DC, Scully is just in time at her hearing, she's coming straight from the cornfield. There she is told that she will be transferred elsewhere in the Bureau so she quits. Mulder meets Dr. Kurtzweil again and finds out that the bees in the domes have a disease and that there has been plans to colonize earth with help of that disease which has something to do with that black oil-thing. Later, Scully goes to Mulder's apartment to tell him she quit. That she doesn't want to work with someone else in some other section in the Bureau. Mulder begs her not to quit now, not after all what they've seen but she just says that he doesn't need him, he never has and walks out of the room to the hallway. Mulder follows her (wanting to tell her that he does need her - and he tells that pretty well!) and says that although she was assigned to debunk his work, she saved him, and that he doesn't want to continue his work without her - he can't do it without her. It's a very gentle moment, they are both crying (well, Mulder is almost crying) and they get closer to each other. They are very close, and just before a kiss is shared between them, a bee that was hiding under Scully's collar, stings her and she collapses to the floor (just think! Without that bee they would've kissed! Oh my God...sorry, it's just me, I'm hopeless when it comes to Mulder & Scully relationship. The almost-kiss scene was just GREAT, I loved it when they came so close to a kiss... but if they would have kissed, I would've been actually kinda disappointed 'cause the always-so-lovely sexual tension between those two would be gone, and in a way that would be a bad thing. But still I consider myself as a shipper. Damn the bees ;) Well, back to the movie...). Mulder is shocked and calls 911 and soon the ambulancemen come and take Scully with them. Except they aren't the ambulancemen, and when Mulder asks where are they taking Scully, he gets shot in his head. When he wakes up in a hospital, the Lone Gunmen and Skinner are with him. After he hears that the shot didn't cause anything really serious, he wants to leave to find Scully, and so he and Byers change parts. Mulder takes Byers's clothes and leaves with other LGM and Byers stays in the hospital bed instead of Mulder. Trying to find Dr. Kurtzweil, Mulder meets Well-Manicured Man who offers him information about Scully. Mulder, of course, can not refuse and gets in a car with WMM. He learns more about the colonization of earth that is supposed to happen. Then WMM gives him a vaccine for Scully and the coordinates of the place they're keeping her. Suddenly WMM kills his driver and tells Mulder (who thinks WMM is going to kill him too, but is wrong) to get out of the car. He gets out and when he's walked away from the car, it explodes and WMM is killed insinde (except that no one really dies in the X-Files...). The coordinates lead Mulder to Wilkes Land, Antarctica, where he drives somekind of big snow-vehicle to a place with big domes, they look the same than those cornfield domes. He starts walking to them and when he's almost there, he falls into a cave. After a long underground-tunnel he comes to a very big place which appears to be an alien ship. He wanders around until he finds Scully's clothes and her golden cross. He takes the cross and keeps looking for Scully. He finds somekind of glass-things that look like standing coffins, and inside of them are humans. He looks in every one of them until he finds Scully. He breaks the glass and gives Scully the vaccine. She starts "waking up" and coughs terribly, it's almost like she would be throwing up as Mulder takes a long tube out of her mouth. Then he gets her out of that thing and wraps her into his coat (before that Scully has no clothes on at all, and later she has also trousers and socks on. Mulder must have put them on her at some point but they don't show that in the movie). At the same time, CSM and some other men inside the same ship are terrified because Mulder gave the vaccine to Scully, apparently that has some awful effect on the ship and what's in it. There are aliens in same kind of "glass-coffins" that Scully were in, and they're starting to wake up as Mulder and Scully are trying to get out of the ship. It's not easy, and Scully who isn't really ok yet, loses consciousness and Mulder gives her mouth-to-mouth artificial respiration ("Kiss of life"! So, in a way they did kiss after all...No, Scully was unconscious! It's just me and my thoughts... but their faces were so close, it was really lovely!). Soon Scully wakes up, gives him a small smile and says "I had you". They get out just before the aliens get them (CSM and the other guys have already left) and start running away from the ship as the snow behind them is breaking down. The ship is coming from under the snow, and Mulder & Scully get sucked in to that hole but when the ship gets out of the hole, it "brings" them back up. Mulder tells Scully to look at the ship as it flies behind the clouds but she is too weak to rise her head from the snow so she doesn't really see it. Then she rises, takes Mulder's head in her arms and they lay in a tight embrace in the middle of the snow (that is just lovely! Scully holding Mulder in her arms is one of the best things that could happen between them). When they get back to Washington DC, Scully has another hearing. She explains everything they found out and so they decide not to shut down the X-files after all. Later Scully meets Mulder and tells him that since the X-files are reopened, she doesn't want to quit the FBI. Mulder says that maybe she should quit: he doesn't want to see her to get killed because of him. But of course Scully can't - and doesn't want to - leave him working alone and says: "If I quit now, they win." There's pretty much what happened. And, after that we see CSM and his men starting to make another cornfield with big white domes.

Now you're wondering, what did I think of the movie. Well, I LOVED IT!!!! It was just GREAT!! It had a good story, it was funny, it was scary and it was...great! And finally they solved even something about the conspiracy. And I, of course, loved it when Mulder and Scully were so caring and gentle to each other. But, for non-philes who don't know the background of Mulder & Scully relationship and don't know much about CSM and the syndicate, it might not be so good. I mean, they probably like it but they don't understand it the same way than Philes. Gillian and David were great, both played their parts very well, especially the M & S tension.