Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #8006 in DVD
• Released on: 2004-12-27
• Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
• Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
• Number of discs: 6
• Formats: Box set, Black & White, Colour, Dubbed, PAL, Widescreen
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: Dutch, French, Greek, Italian
• Dubbed in: French, Italian
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 45 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
The midpoint of what would be a nine-season show, the fifth season of The X-Files (the first to be put on DVD in anamorphic widescreen format) gives fans a heavy heaping of what they love. For the mythology buffs, riveting episodes from the season bookends "Redux" and "The End" to several episodes in between tease with new revelations about the vast government conspiracies and alien invasion plot lines sketched in earlier seasons. But enough questions are left unanswered for the theatrical X-Files movie, which was released the subsequent summer, and the seasons that followed. Supporting characters like the Lone Gunmen, Agent Krycek, the Pusher Robert Modell, and Fox's father and sister Bill and Samantha Mulder are flushed out in more detail in several episodes that occasionally jump back in time to cover the prehistory of The X-Files. New chess pieces are introduced, each raising new questions: the clairvoyant child Gibson Praise, Agent Spender, faceless alien resistance fighters with pyromaniacal tendencies, a child who may be Scully's, and Mulder's old flame, agent Diana Fowley (Mimi Rogers). All the time, no one knows who will be assassinated next, who is or isn't dead, just who isn't potentially a child of the Cigarette Smoking Man, and why the base of the neck is everyone's vulnerable spot. The creature feature stand-alone episodes vary in quality, but all are redeemed by the outrageously funny self-parody episode "Bad Blood," a fan favorite that guest stars Luke Wilson as a small-town sheriff who catches Scully's eye. Finally, "shippers" (fans who would love nothing better than to see Mulder and Scully act upon their feelings for each other) get a heavy dose of the usual sexual innuendo and lingering, tender glances between the attractive costars. Mimi Rogers and Luke Wilson incite palpable jealousy between the leads; the appearance of a wedding ring on Mulder's hand in a back story hints at stories not told; and the usual extreme and dimly lit crises illustrate just how far Mulder and Scully will go for each other. In the end, the complexities of their relationship may be the most tense and intriguing of all the mysteries explored by this epic television series. --Eugene Wei

Special Features
Main Language: English Available Audio Tracks: Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround Sub Titles: Dutch, French, Greek, Italian Dubbed Language(s): French, Italian Hearing Impaired: English The Truth About Season Five 6 Special Effects Clips With Audio Commentary 5 Deleted Scenes With Optional Commentary By Chris Carter White Rabbit Branching Option Extended Versions Of Each To Be Found 11 Behind The Truth TV Spots 30 Promotional TV Spots International Clips From 16 Episodes Alternate Audio Streams 24 Page Collectors Booklet 30 Minute Documentary Inside The X Files

Synopsis
This collection documents all the truth that was out there during the fifth series of the beloved science-fiction suspense series, THE X-FILES. Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) track suspicious cases that may be attributed to the supernatural or involve unexplained phenomena. Memorable episodes include "The Post-Modern Prometheus," a bizarre "monster" tale shot mostly in black and white; "Chinga," a horror story written by Stephen King and X-FILES creator Chris Carter; and "Bad Blood," a favorite among fans that deals with vampirism and features a guest appearance by Luke Wilson. Other episodes include "Redux," "Christmas Carol," "Kill Switch," "Folie a Deux," and many more.

Customer Reviews

Best X-Files?
By the time Season 5 came out XFiles was at its peak, this season was followed by the Cinematic release of The XFiles movie. It only features 20 episodes, the movie is meant to count as part of this season.

It could be argued that this was the best season ever. The conspiricy theorys are continued throughout this season, but with Mulder in a more sceptical frame of mind, which does get very complicated, is it all a hoax for Mulders benefit?

But where this season comes into its own is the stand alone episodes, In 'Detour' the agents are hunted by a Predator like creature and the episode 'Lost Souls' is a classic chiller. 'Bad Blood' is probably my favourite episode ever, it is comedy gold, the chemistry between Mulder and Scully is fantastic.

Its not all great though there are a few slow episodes revolving around Scullys daughter, but dont let that put you off, this is classic stuff thats well worth the money.

ONE OF THE BEST
This is probably one of the best collections so far, has a great selection of funny and serious episodes in. For the x files fans would really recommend this but even if you only watched a few this is still great viewing

A poor follow up to Season 4
Season 4 was always going to be a hard act to follow but it would seem that Chris Carter and co made special effort to ensure that viewers could not draw parallels, and thus compare, between Season Five and preceeding series'. The effort to break the sombre and often bleak tones of earlier episodes forced Carter to go down a more formulaic and at times comedic path.
Whether this new route was in response to pressure from TV bosses to make the show more accessible to the wider public, or to ensure that the upcoming transisiton to cinema was met with good box office sales is unclear.
Nonetheless for continued viewers of the series Season Five must be considered a disappointment. The series consists of some fairly lightweight material which was not in keeping with the story development through Series 1 - 4. However the series does contain some genuinely gripping episodes which attain the consistent heights of Series 4.
It is around this time that "The X-Files" became a more prominent show in the TV listings and entered the popular culture social consciousness on a larger scale than it had before which perhaps explains the selection of style over substance.