The X Files - Film Review
March 28th, 2010 by Robert
The X Files was a fine television show for its time. A feature film seemed a great idea, and all the quality we have come to expect from the show has been transferred successfully into the new format. The only problem is, film is bigger than TV. What we are left with is a fine episode of The X Files the TV show thrown onto a big screen. Mulder and Scully are left to run around in a world of suddenly expanded possibility, but the film makers fail to scale the concept up to fulfil the potential that it brings. Read the rest of this entry »
Not as bad as I had expected from a C-grade 80’s sequel, but still no world-beater. I’m not squeamish, but a couple of scenes in this were pretty gross, and completely gratuitous.
John Wyndham had a tendency to write stories that set up some really funky situations, but which then failed to develop properly as satisfying plotlines. Based on his book, The Midwich Cuckoos, Village of the Damned suffers from the same problem. 
It’s obvious that the intention was to make this look like a comic book transferred to the big screen. Nothing new there. But the result of the cheap film enhancement director Kurt Wimmer deploys is that it turns out looking like a poorly rendered computer game. 
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