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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
I have now become an X-Files fan!, May 31, 2002
I've seen the X-Files show a couple of times before but was only mildly impressed. I had seen the feature film and wasn't impressed at all. But just last night I watched these two particular episodes, and now I understand why people become X-Files fans. It was very suspenseful, and I still can't make heads or tails out of some of the stuff I saw. But I know I liked it!The way the climax unfolds in the claustrophobic atmosphere of a single train car which may or may not contain a bomb; and may or may not contain an alien; and may or may not contain a human experiment gone dangerously awry; and may very well contain an agent from the National Security Agency who threatens Mulder's mission (and his life) -- great writing of this caliber is usually only seen in Hitchcock films or the M. Night Shyamalan (sic) films. If you are (like I was 24 hours ago) not an X-Files fan, just check this one out. If you like on-the-edge-of-your-seat suspense, you won't be disappointed.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
All the goberments have secrets., October 18, 2000
I already was a believer in the UFO phenomena, and the X-files show this in a new way, the alien conspiration, everithing was expose in this serie. In this episodes Mulder traces the video of the Alien authopsy, but this investigation takes show him more a simple fake, they expose the world conspiration to obtain new medical and technological advances obtained from the Aliens. In this two episodes, the two contries ( USA and Japan ), figth to keep the results of the alien investigations for your own beneficts, and show how this experiments was used in normal persons to see the results ( like the microchip planted on Scully and the camp with all the infected people ). This is definitelly one of the most interested chapters in the X-Files saga, and show many things who made more than one person think about the UFO and Alien phenomena and if the goberments really tell all the true to the people.We are alone ?
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2.0 out of 5 stars
So much mass and unsubtle killing spoil the subtle mystery of the show, November 26, 2008
The two-part episode on this tape is one that goes so far beyond what is reasonable that I was no longer able to suspend my disbelief. It opens with a scene where a team of Japanese doctors is performing an autopsy on an unusual humanoid creature in a railroad car. Suddenly, a team of American soldiers burst in and proceeds to machine-gun everyone in the room. The owner of a video business manages to capture a raw feed from a satellite dish on the railroad car and offers it for sale. Mulder purchases a copy and shows it to Scully.
When they attempt to track down the owner of the video business at his home, they find him executed on the bed and a Japanese man is still in the house. After a fierce fight, Mulder manages to capture the man and turn him over to the police. It turns out that he is a Japanese diplomat and after some wrangling, the man is released. Shortly after that, a mysterious American man kills the Japanese diplomat.
This killing of everyone who knows anything continues throughout both episodes, becoming even worse in the second. At one point, a group of "people" that appear somewhat alien in nature are taken to the edge of a ditch and then machine-gunned by American soldiers. This is a scene straight out of any film depicting what the Germans did during World War II and no reasonable person could think that the U. S. government could ever pull off such an action. It is an open field on a U. S. government facility and they do it in broad daylight and don't even fill in the trench after the killing is over. It is very hard to hide such mass murder.
I yield to few people in believing that the U. S. government is capable of subterfuge, deception and foul deeds. However, the wanton and mass killings in these episodes totally destroy the structure of tension and mystery and that the government is evil. Additional arguments against are that the killings are not subtle and many are of Japanese people that would raise some kind of international protest.
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