The X-Files

: See also The X-Files (books) and The X Files Movie

The X-Files: Fight the Future

In 1998 the series produced a motion picture, '. It was intended as a continuation of the season five finale, "The End" (5x20), but was also meant to stand on its own. The film was a commercial success. However, it attracted generally muted reviews from many major critics and, although the worldwide popularity of the show helped the movie's intake, the domestic box office was substantially less than what the studio had spent on producing and promoting the film. The movie, like much of what followed it on the series, remains a point of contention among fans - some of whom appreciate its place in the narrative, others deploring it for being the beginning of an unwieldy narrative structure which continued throughout the series.

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1998 - The End

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The movie's opening sequence featured a bomb attack on a Federal office building in Dallas. Several media commentators noted parallels between this and the real-life 1995 Oklahoma City Bombing. http://www.thedailypage.com/going-out/movies/reviews/movieReview.php?intReviewID=65 http://www.thespinningimage.co.uk/cultfilms/displaycultfilm.asp?reviewid=365

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