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The X Files: I Want to Believe (2008)
Good movie - but a missed opportunity?
Had 'I Want To Believe' featured as a regular two-part episode during the original run of the series, it would have been a perfectly competent episode.
Therein lies the problem. Fans of The X Files had waited ten years for the continuation of Mulder and Scully's story and ten years of patient waiting requires a huge pay-off. I Want To Believe is the exact opposite of that - it's a slow, measured sci-fi drama. Minimal FX, minimal action and, until the climax at least, minimal sci-fi. It just isn't enough.
Loose ends from the series are tied up with the bare minimum of thought for long-term fans of the show and the Mulder-Scully relationship never feels real. Separately, both David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson give impressive performances, and whilst they still have chemistry together, they are given little to do as a couple and spend much of the movie apart.
Gillian Anderson deserves to be singled out for her performance - although Billy Connoly is quietly chilling as the possibly psychic priest with a disturbing past.
The Frankenstein-style plot is adequate, although when I saw it in a theatre the final reveal resulted in a fair few giggles from the audience.
Overall, I Want To Believe is a good film - but it had the potential to be a great film. Fingers crossed for The X Files 3.
Therein lies the problem. Fans of The X Files had waited ten years for the continuation of Mulder and Scully's story and ten years of patient waiting requires a huge pay-off. I Want To Believe is the exact opposite of that - it's a slow, measured sci-fi drama. Minimal FX, minimal action and, until the climax at least, minimal sci-fi. It just isn't enough.
Loose ends from the series are tied up with the bare minimum of thought for long-term fans of the show and the Mulder-Scully relationship never feels real. Separately, both David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson give impressive performances, and whilst they still have chemistry together, they are given little to do as a couple and spend much of the movie apart.
Gillian Anderson deserves to be singled out for her performance - although Billy Connoly is quietly chilling as the possibly psychic priest with a disturbing past.
The Frankenstein-style plot is adequate, although when I saw it in a theatre the final reveal resulted in a fair few giggles from the audience.
Overall, I Want To Believe is a good film - but it had the potential to be a great film. Fingers crossed for The X Files 3.
The Life and Times of Vivienne Vyle (2007)
Dark, Biting Satire.....fabulous!
When the first episode of Vivienne Vyle premiered in the UK in October 2007, the critics knives were out for Jennifer Saunders latest venture into sitcom territory. A sharp shock for anyone expecting Absolutely Fabulous or Jam and Jerusalem, Vivienne Vyle is a disturbing, all too real insight into the world of TV talk shows and celebrity culture.
Jennifer Saunders relishes her role as the ambitious, uncompromising Vivienne Vyle - host of a trashy morning talk show. Miranda Richardson excels as the heavy drinking, manic editor of the show who, after a fight breaks out on the show, decides to take the programme in a new direction.
Over six thirty-minute episodes, The Life And Times Of Vivienne Vyle perfectly balances comedy, tragedy and a disturbingly authentic view of the celebrity culture in which we live.
Ignore the critics and give it a chance - this is Jennifer Saunders at her very best.
Jennifer Saunders relishes her role as the ambitious, uncompromising Vivienne Vyle - host of a trashy morning talk show. Miranda Richardson excels as the heavy drinking, manic editor of the show who, after a fight breaks out on the show, decides to take the programme in a new direction.
Over six thirty-minute episodes, The Life And Times Of Vivienne Vyle perfectly balances comedy, tragedy and a disturbingly authentic view of the celebrity culture in which we live.
Ignore the critics and give it a chance - this is Jennifer Saunders at her very best.