The X-Files (1998)
Fight the future.
The X-Files rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic
IMDb7/10· 113K votes
Rotten Tomatoes66%
Metacritic60%
TMDb6.904/10· 2K votesWith 66% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 7/10 on IMDb and 60/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been mixed.
About The X-Files
Mulder and Scully, now taken off the FBI's X Files cases, must find a way to fight the shadowy elements of the government to find out the truth about a conspiracy that might mean the alien colonization of Earth.
Cast of The X-Files
David Duchovny
as Agent Fox Mulder
Gillian Anderson
as Agent Dana Scully
Mitch Pileggi
as Assistant Director Walter Skinner
William B. Davis
as The Cigarette-Smoking Man
John Neville
as The Well-Manicured Man
Martin Landau
as Kurtzweil
Jeffrey DeMunn
as Bronschweig
Tom Braidwood
as Frohike
Blythe Danner
as Cassidy
Terry O'Quinn
as Michaud
Dean Haglund
as Langly
Bruce Harwood
as Byers
The X-Files facts
- Budget
- $66M
- Box office
- $189.2M
- Collection
- The X Files Collection
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Audience opinions
What the audience liked
- •Conspiracy elements layer intrigue with genuine mystery and suspense
- •Atmospheric cinematography enhances paranoid tone throughout narrative
- •Character dynamics between agents drive emotional investment in investigation
What the audience disliked
- •Plot becomes convoluted with exposition dump during final act
- •Pacing stutters between character moments and plot revelations
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