Being suitably paranoid about the paranormal, I wanted to believe that X-Files creator Chris Carter, having had six years since the TV show went off the air to craft a humdinger of a plot, could conjure up something with more ding and less (ho) hum than The X-Files: I Want To Believe. What I believe, hell, what I know is that if I toss spoilers into this review, X-Philes will come to haunt me. So I'll say three things and no more.

1. David Duchovny is back as Fox Mulder and Gillian Anderson…

Old, familiar faces aside, this X-Files sequel unfortunately doesn't satisfy the itch for more Scully and Mulder paranormal adventures.

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The first problem is the title: I Want to Believe? Not at all mysterious as an X-Files title should be. What it points to, however, is the age-old question of why former FBI agent Fox Mulder (David Duchovny)--now a recluse hiding out from the FBI and cutting out newspaper articles--believes in the unexplainable, while Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson)--now a…