Stargate
Upon finding a strange device in Egypt 50 years ago, they keep it as they do not know how to open the device. But now scholar Daniel Jackson, who knows how to open the device, the thing that risks the life of humanity, as he travels with a group using the device into another planet, where they worship God Ra.
30 October 1949, Rock Hill, South Carolina, USA
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11 July 1962, McLean, Virginia, USA
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October 27, 2009
Still, this is a decent little diversion, the kind of pure popcorn fodder that would find a far more ballsy form when Will Smith took on city-sized flying saucers in Independence Day.February 12, 2003
A load of outer space codswallop!January 01, 2000
A cinematic fireworks show without the grand finale.January 02, 2011
Promising setup killed by action-film cliches.January 01, 2000
[A] loopy, mostly entertaining sci-fi adventure.June 02, 2010
"Has matured wonderfully, sustaining as a curious genre exercise in blockbuster yearn marked by surprising buoyancy, madly entertaining performances, and a fertile cinematic imagination behind the camera not yet corrupted by massive box office success."June 27, 2011
What Emmerich achieves is a sense of grand scale that makes the film fun to watch as a space adventure.March 18, 2003
The main problem with Stargate is not with set-up, but with execution. After a while you feel like you're just watching weird people staggering around a desert.January 01, 2000
The movie Ed Wood, about the worst director of all time, was made to prepare us for Stargate.February 12, 2003
Roland Emmerich's reign of terror begins ...