Production design, costumes and special effects are superb and they all make the alien world very convincing.
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01/01/00
Stargate (1994)
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Reviews Counted:37
Fresh:17
Rotten:20
Average Rating:5.2/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 10 mins
Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy
Synopsis: In this visually creative space adventure from the team that would go on to give the world INDEPENDENCE DAY and GODZILLA, a timid, glasses-wearing Egyptologist (James Spader) uncovers an ancient... [More]
Starring: James Spader, Kurt Russell, Jaye Davidson, Viveca Lindfors
Director: Roland Emmerich
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Reviews for Stargate
A cinematic fireworks show without the grand finale.
01/01/00
Top CriticA load of gibberish.
02/08/03
The movie Ed Wood, about the worst director of all time, was made to prepare us for Stargate.
01/01/00
Top CriticAn instant camp classic.
01/09/02
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.
10/27/09
Think Star Wars meets Ben-Hur.
01/01/00
[A] loopy, mostly entertaining sci-fi adventure.
01/01/00
Top CriticWhat starts out as not the same-old, same-old sci-fi quickly degenerates into the same-old, same-old action-movie gunplay, and all the potentially interesting ideas the film introduces end up virtually unexplored.
05/12/01
The thinness and bizarre randomness of the story is equalled by some unimpressive special effects.
01/01/00
The thinness and bizarre randomness of the story is equalled by some unimpressive special effects
02/05/03
A matinee movie for the kids and little else.
01/01/00
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.
11/02/09
The story's so weak that it's almost opaque.
01/01/00
...an encouraging premise, good special effects, excellent sound, and one of the dumbest payoffs in big-budget film history.
04/07/01
Offered just enough to keep me interested, despite all of its bombast and unfulfilled promise.
01/01/00
Stargate will satisfy those who are single-mindedly focused on the fabulous premise of instant travel through space, and time. But it could have, and should have, been done much better than this.
01/01/00
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.
03/18/03
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