Stargate (1994)
Average Rating: 5.3/10
Reviews Counted: 40
Fresh: 19 | Rotten: 21
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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
Oct 28, 1994 Wide
Jun 17, 1997
Artisan Home Entertainment
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Cast
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Kurt Russell
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James Spader
Dr. Daniel Jackson -
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Viveca Lindfors
Catherine -
Alexis Cruz
Skaara -
Mili Avital
Sha'uri -
Leon Rippy
General West -
John Diehl
Lieutenant Kawalsky -
Erick Avari
Kasuf -
Robert Allan Ackerman
Companion -
Rae Allen
Barbara Shore -
Kenneth Danziger
Professor -
Christopher John Fields
Lieutenant Freeman -
Erik Holland
Prof.Langford -
Gladys Holland
Professor -
Djimon Hounsou
Horus -
Richard Kind
Gary Meyers -
Gianin Loffler
Nabeh -
Jack Moore
Lieutenant Reilly -
David Pressman
Assistant Lieutenant -
John Storey
Mitch -
Christopher West
Professor -
Scott Smith
Officer -
Frank Welker
Mastadge -
Roger Til
Professor -
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French Stewart
Lieutenant Feretti -
Cecil Hoffmann
Sarah O'Neil -
George Gray
Technician
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All Critics (44) | Top Critics (9) | Fresh (21) | Rotten (21) | DVD (29)
The movie Ed Wood, about the worst director of all time, was made to prepare us for Stargate.
Top Critic[A] loopy, mostly entertaining sci-fi adventure.
A cinematic fireworks show without the grand finale.
What Emmerich achieves is a sense of grand scale that makes the film fun to watch as a space adventure.
Promising setup killed by action-film cliches.
"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."
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.
Audience Reviews for Stargate
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- Lieutenant Kawalsky: [Jackson sneezes hard] Cold?
- Dr. Daniel Jackson: Allergies: always happens when I travel.
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- Dr. Daniel Jackson: [Kasuf gestures towards his village] He's inviting us to go with him.
- Lieutenant Kawalsky: How can you be so sure?
- Dr. Daniel Jackson: Because he's...
- Dr. Daniel Jackson: [repeats gesture] inviting us to go with him.
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- Colonel Jonathan "Jack" O'Neil: Give my regards to King Tut asshole!
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Foreign Titles
- Stargate, la porte des étoiles (FR)
