Thursday 25 February 2016

Frame Rated: THE X-FILES - 'My Struggle II'

Thursday 25 February 2016

Yesterday at Frame Rated: I reviewed the terrible finale to THE X-FILES' revival, "My Struggle II", which capped an inconsistent and frustrating comeback.
While not as distasteful as "Babylon", the finale of The X-Files' so-called 'event series' was a preposterous mess that bit off more than it could chew. Maybe if this had been a two-hour film (possibly as intended, as Chris Carter once admitted writing a third movie on spec), it perhaps would have had the necessary time and budget to do justice to some of its ideas, although brevity and lack of money wasn’t the main problem. Continue reading...