Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Libramedi Intense, gripping, stylish and poignant

Kidskycom It's funny watching the elements come together in this complicated scam. On one hand, the set-up isn't quite as complex as it seems, but there's an easy sense of fun in every exchange.

Allissa .Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

lasttimeisaw Having laid the foundation of a nexus of television spin-offs thenceforward (persisting two and a half decades and ongoing, with a possible reboot in gestation), Roland Emmerich's filmic progenitor is de facto less a hardcore Sci-Fi adventure than a thinly veiled propaganda piece of colonialism, which nominally transports a contingent of earthlings (all American soldiers bar one scientist) into a terra incognita through a wormhole generated by Stargate, a mysterious instrument disinterred in Egypt. A classic pair of brain and brawn, Daniel Jackson (Spader, when he is personable to a fault), an Egyptologist and Colonel Jack O'Neil (Russell, sporting a neat crew-cut) takes the leads, what they discover is a desert planet inhabited by Ancient Egyptians, enslaved by Ra, the God of Sun (an epicene Jay Davidson in his second and last film role before retiring from the showbiz altogether), a big question mark should be alerted for the ethnic semblance here, which can be readily construed as a crass fable boasting USA's heroic inference of a less developed nation here on earth, liberating its downtrodden people and debunking the truth of their God (or any totalitarian figure), tellingly, the film's atheist and scientific stance looks promising, but soon a sweeping whiff of smugness and self-congratulation will swamp everything and tenacious to dissipate. As it turns out, the real identity of the so-called Ra, is an alien hosting a human body (thousands of years before he hijacked early humans to this remote planet and started his draconian rule), and what he presides over is a pretty tinpot reign (in spite of his stately pyramid-shaped spaceship), not only is he doomed to be vanquished by a team of earthlings in the end (yes, O'Neil follows the order, and surreptitiously brings a portable nuclear bomb on board in case of contingency, this is very American), but also he is clearly in short measure of both materiel and personnel in the first place (a dozen underlings and three laser-shooting aircrafts, that is all), not to mention the sole victim subjected to his seemingly almighty puissance is after all, one of his own incompetent guard.Among the extraterrestrial hoi polloi, due focal points are projected to a rebellious youngster Skaara (Cruz) and a beauteous Sha'uri (Avital), who is bequeathed as a wife to Jackson by her father Kasuf (Avari), the leader of the tribe, whose awakening-to-rising route is a well-trodden but insipidly crafted one. If one must single out an asset from the entire enterprise, it could only be the set-up of the titular Stargate, an abstruse device can literally open portals to every nook and cranny of our cosmic universe (depending on which group of coordinates one employs), however, Emmerich is not a Sci-Fi polymath but a workmanlike skin-scratcher, so the end result is proximate to anyone's skeptic forecast.

paradux Boy could this have been a great film.Emmerich is his own worst enemy. Great director but letting him write may not be the smartest idea.The first act is wonderful. Great writing. Great casting. Russell is and always will be one of the great macho men of the era. (You gotta see SOLDIER! WOW!) Spader also was under-rated in the day. Watch him reappear out of nowhere in The Blacklist and you will start to see what he is capable of.Former beauty queen and movie star Viveca Lindfors even got a great cameo just a year before her untimely ing.Great start but if you even blinked suddenly you were in a bad B-movie with no obvious plot, script, or purpose.The IMDb rating is a kindness I think, a reflection of what could have been.Hollywood has done a remake of everything except the telephone book. Why not this?

MisterWhiplash It's interesting to come to Stargate about 22 years after it first came out without having seen it before; I didn't have the nostalgia for it that people I know have or had (my wife at one point in her very young life called it her favorite film), and it also comes after seeing everything else that Roland Emmerich (with occasional collaborator Dean Devlin) put out since. The impression that I get from it is that it's clear why it got so many sequels and spin-offs and TV series and books and so on. The premise - and in fact the first half hour of the movie - is terrific and stimulating for a science fiction fan: what if you could get a gateway to other worlds? What would you go to to find? The set-up gives us James Spader as a nerdy scientist (a less overbearing version of what was presented with Matthew Broderick in Godzilla years later) who is plucked from semi-obscurity/mockery as someone who believes the pyramids may not have been made by the figures history has taught us. He's selected to look at some hieroglyphics and... something else - there's a series of stars that makes up a constellation that maps out how we're at an origin point to go into other dimensions. And as it turns out the very device is in the possession of some, uh, government types I suppose, and with the leadership of military man Kurt Russell a team is dispatched to check out what is beyond the Stargate.I was on board with this idea, if only on the basis of 'hey, what can we explore and use as data and so on'. What the characters find is... a lot of clichés and hokum, a desert world that is equal parts Return of the Jedi Endor and Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome with Egyptian 'natives' and then other assorted Star Wars and other "homages" (or plain rip-offs) from other movies, not least of which Lawrence of Arabia and Indiana Jones and so on. This may be all on me though, since this is me as an adult coming to this and having years of knowledge of cinema history... on the other hand, large chunks of this movie are dumb. There's no other way to phrase it except moments show characters and situations with stupid things, though they're still "stupid-movie" things, if that makes sense.So there's some wasted opportunity for something, I won't say 'unique' as far be it from me to expect that from Emmerich, but less expected and hokey. But the story moves at a great pace, despite its wacked and dopey moving parts, and Spader and Russell ground it as two characters you can care about in a sea of people who are walking-talking tropes and types (oh, there's also the element of Aliens with it being a military group dispatched to check out this alien land and the violence they come up against), and things like culture-clash and language/communication barriers and villains with amazing Egyptian masks and sets and all sorts of things.Stargate has parts that work really well in a sea of things that flat-out don't. It may be perspective considering what else Emmerich would do with himself in the intervening years of Hollywood, but there's at least a, shall one say, 'restraint' with what he puts out here, at least when it comes to cheesy Hollywood sci-fi. I won't say it's very good, but it's also not terrible either.

Sam smith (sam_smithreview) now that the heading is in bold, we can get back to writing in normal letters. This is one of my all time favorite films. Everything in this film makes me appreciate it. From the great acting ensemble. To the amazing CGI that still holds it ground in today's cinema, to the incredible story. With a lot of people saying that it has similarities with Star Trak is just nonsense. While Star Trak is set in space, and deals more of racial sub topics and is more of a political drama based show/ movies. Stargate deals with other planets and Earth, not much in space. and it focus on ancient religion and believes of help from other beings.The story of the rings being used as gate way travel to distant worlds is pretty Awesome, and the film is also very smart on how they achieve communication between all the different species by having them all have some ancient language in common as they all have ancient gods who they fear or believe in.This is an incredibly awesome film, with some really cool action scenes, very well written dialogue and really great acting from Kurt Russell and James Spader