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Stargate

Stargate (1994)

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Average Rating: 4.7/10
Critic Reviews: 5
Fresh: 1 | Rotten: 4

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This lucrative, elephantine-budgeted sci-fi opus paved the way for director Roland Emmerich's mega-hit Independence Day (1996). The story commences in Giza, Egypt, circa 1928, where an archaeological expedition unearths an ancient ring with cryptic hieroglyphs. The film then moves to the present day, where Egyptologist Daniel Jackson (James Spader) is busily trying to convince a group of skeptics that the pyramids were not built by man, but by an extraterrestrial force. After the lecture, a

Jun 17, 1997

Artisan Home Entertainment

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The movie Ed Wood, about the worst director of all time, was made to prepare us for Stargate.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times | Comments (5)
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[A] loopy, mostly entertaining sci-fi adventure.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Washington Post | Comment
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A cinematic fireworks show without the grand finale.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: ReelViews | Comment
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What Emmerich achieves is a sense of grand scale that makes the film fun to watch as a space adventure.

June 27, 2011 Full Review Source: 7M Pictures | Comment
7M Pictures

Promising setup killed by action-film cliches.

January 2, 2011 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media | Comment
Common Sense Media

"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 2, 2010 Full Review Source: BrianOrndorf.com | Comment
BrianOrndorf.com

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.

October 27, 2009 Full Review Source: PopMatters | Comment
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Audience Reviews for Stargate

Its really random plot is a little awkward for a sci fi movie and some of the parts but it is fairly decent for a sci fi movie

January 8, 2011
michael e.
Michael Edwards

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The Original one was watchable and I like James Spader.

February 19, 2008
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Wahida K

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    1. Dr. Daniel Jackson: [Kasuf gestures towards his village] He's inviting us to go with him.
    2. Lieutenant Kawalsky: How can you be so sure?
    3. Dr. Daniel Jackson: Because he's...
    4. Dr. Daniel Jackson: [repeats gesture] inviting us to go with him.
    – Submitted by Francis L (4 months ago)
    1. Colonel Jonathan "Jack" O'Neil: Give my regards to King Tut asshole!
    – Submitted by Kos G (10 months ago)

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