You know what Carter's mistake was with this movie? He got confused and wrote a Millennium movie, instead of an X-Files movie. If you think of it as a Millennium movie, it's actually pretty good. Maybe a good way to think of it is a Mulder/Scully crossover to Millennium, without Frank Black.
Wow...I didnt think about it that way. You're right, that applies to the fact that M&S didnt really belong in this particular story. Sounds like something the Millennium Group would be involved in, not TXF team. Im still wondering what the X-File was?