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The X-Files: Fight the Future

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This is an excellent adaptation of the feature film The X-Files: Fight the Future. Elizabeth Hand took Chris Carter's script and transferred it to book form in the most faithful way possible. If you've seen the movie (and I would certainly recommend seeing the movie before reading this adaptation of it), you will "see" the entire movie in your mind as you read along. The dialogue is word for word, the descriptions are an exact match to the scenes in the movie, and you will not find anything from the movie that is not translated onto these pages. Strangely enough, the book feels more rushed than the movie did, and the written word doesn't convey as strong a visual image of the film's culminating action in Antarctica, but I think this is clearly due to the fact that this book was borne of the movie and not vice versa.

Lest you think there is no reason to read this adaptation of the movie, I should point out that there is a tiny bit of material here that you will not see in the film itself. This extra material concerns the fate of Mulder's little sister Samantha, and I can't imagine why such an important exchange between Mulder and the Well-Manicured Man was left out of the film. This is information that goes to the very root of Mulder's obsessive commitment to uncovering "the truth."

The initial hardback release features several pages of excellent color stills from the film, which make quite a nice addition to an important and very readable novel. Even if you've seen the film so many times you have all the lines memorized, this is a book every X-Files fan really should read and own.

This is one of the better books based on movies. Elizabeth Hand is a great author.

This book came out in Manila, Philippines before the movie, and really helped in keeping me up to date on the plot line. I started from scratch, doing background reading on the "X-Files" so I could understand the movie. Started with the official site, then the fan fiction, and can now be called a novice X-philer. The book complements the movie very well, and I think Chris Carter did an excellent job in expanding the series from its original TV format to the big screen, and now books. Great work!

This book is a bit more detailed than the movie. The action scenes from the movie does not translate as well into the book, but for the true fans of the x-files this is definitely worth reading. For more involved story lines, fans should read the novels from Charles Grant and Kevin J. Anderson. The only disappointment from the book is that it was very short and you can easily finish it in one night.

This is one of the greatest books I've ever read. This is the greatest book for X-Files fans and fans of the movie. I would definitely buy this book if you are an X-Files fan who wants the inside look at the plot of the movie. THE TRUTH OF SAMANTHA IS REVIELED IN THE BOOK BUT NOT IN THE MOVIE BECAUSE IT GOT CUT. See the movie then read the book and you'll know what i mean!!!!

The book is so much better then the movie I only wish I read the book first. I read the book in one day and I couldn`t put it away, I really tried. Smart, funny, scary and it`s worth buying. For all of you X-philes out there -- you have to have it!

The book was like an exstended version of the show! I then saw the movie It was based on. The book is so much better then the movie. Although I don't want people to think that you shouldn't go see the movie. But to read the book first.

The X-Files novel, Fight the Future, is a great book if you like the X-Files in general. Fight the Future goes into more detail into the government's conspiracy of denying the existence of aliens. Mulder and Scully are two FBI agents who are trying to make these men keeping thier existence a secret "famous", which mean to expose them. Mulder's sister, Samantha Mulder, was abducted by aliens, he believes, long ago. The search for Samantha is what spurs Mulder on. Scully joined Mulder on the X-Files, but she was assigned to him to keep an eye on him and tell the conspirators what he was up to. Scully broke her truth with these men and became loyal to Mulder. Fight the Future begins with a bomb explosion destorying a building. This building was destoryed to cover up bodies which were infected with an alien virus. Mulder and Scully find the bomb, but the man who was to disarm it ordered an evacuation and let the bomb go off to cover up the bodies. Mulder and Scully are blamed for the bomb and are ordered to be split up. Mulder gets advice from a man whom the government is trying to find and kill to shut him up, and he finds out why the building was destroyed. Mulder and Scully then venture out on clues to a huge tent-like building filled with bees. Scully gets stung by one of these bees, and Mulder calls a hospital. The conspirators have intercepted his call and they go and take Scully, who is spasiming. Mulder is grazed by a bullet from a gun in the hands of the fake hospital men. When Mulder wakes up he gets help from one of the conspirators, who later kills himself. Mulder never thought that he would get help from one of the original conspirators. He has the vaccine to the virus Scully has and the coordinates to her location. Mulder comes to the coordinates and falls into an alien shuttle. Mulder searches through many human infected corpses untill he comes to Scully. He gets her and gives her the vaccine and escapes while the space shuttle leaves. When Mulder and Scully try to tell others about thier adventure they are laughed at as usual, but the X-Files were reopened. The investigations will continue, but it was said that one man alone cannot fight the future.

Just watched this one again since I am intending on viewing the newer X Files movie on DVD this evening. Well, for anyone who ever wanted to get caught up on and with the X Files, Fight the Future is really a great flick. I think they did a great job getting this to the big screen. The acting was typical X Files so for the fan, you would not be dissappointed and for the newby you would really understand the characters being in character.

Additionally, this flick takes you all around the world, you basically visit four continents, Africa, Europe, North America and the South Pole. Great FX support a great story line. Of course, you wonder what conspiracy theories and theorists Chris Carter, the creator of XFiles, reads or is aware of. But, really, thinking that ETs are coming to take over earth and there are men who are working with them to minimize any damage to the human race. Who is this cabal of men, secretive from all over the world?

The extras in this DVD are also excellent. You really get a sense of Mulder sliding down the insides of the alien ship and actually, the stunt itself was really amazing. I look forward to the next installment of XFiles.

I liked this book because, if you watch the televison show you get to know the characters and this is what you want to see in their performances in the book and the movie. The book did go into more detail than the movie that is why I liked it so much. It also let the reader know more about the mythology of the XFiles. This is why I loved this book so much. Also the book had some good pictures in it from the movie. This book was great.