Stargate Reviews

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Leigh Paatsch
Herald Sun (Australia)
October 29, 2020
An ungainly, but interesting blend of sci-fiction and an old-fashioned, sandblown desert epic.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/5
David Nusair
Reel Film Reviews
May 31, 2020
...an entertaining sci-fi thriller...
Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4
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David Hunter
Hollywood Reporter
October 29, 2019
Stargate is a blast from the past in many ways, but it imaginatively employs the latest special effects technology to give audiences new thrills.
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Zaki Hasan
San Francisco Chronicle
October 13, 2019
The kind of flick where Kurt Russell dispatches an Anubis-looking baddie after first telling him, in the kind of bon mot that elevates the thing an entire letter grade, "Give my regards to King Tut, a**hole."
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Sergio Benítez
Espinof
August 28, 2019
'Stargate' is a prime entertainment whose two hours of footage passes very quickly. [Full Review in Spanish]
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Jay Carr
Boston Globe
May 2, 2018
It works not because ridiculousness is concealed, but because ridiculousness on this scale becomes something else. Don't let anyone tell you that Stargate, lifeless script and all, isn't clunky fun, proudly trembling on the brink of classic camp.
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Quentin Curtis
Independent on Sunday
November 29, 2017
Stargate starts promisingly... But it then turns into an interminable exercise in special effects and not-so-special fisticuffs.
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Owen Gleiberman
Entertainment Weekly
September 7, 2011
Full Review | Original Score: C
Kevin Carr
7M Pictures
June 27, 2011
What Emmerich achieves is a sense of grand scale that makes the film fun to watch as a space adventure.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/5
Scott G. Mignola
Common Sense Media
January 2, 2011
Promising setup killed by action-film cliches.
Full Review | Original Score: 4/5
Brian Orndorf
BrianOrndorf.com
June 2, 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."
Full Review | Original Score: B+
Bill Gibron
PopMatters
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.
Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5
JoBlo
JoBlo's Movie Network
June 30, 2006
Full Review | Original Score: 6/10
Emanuel Levy
EmanuelLevy.Com
August 10, 2005
Original Score: 3/5
Lori Hoffman
Atlantic City Weekly
January 5, 2005
Original Score: 3/5
Kevin Carr
Film Threat
August 10, 2004
Original Score: 2/5
Mike McGranaghan
Aisle Seat
June 13, 2004
Original Score: 3/5
Andy Klein
New Times
May 29, 2004
Original Score: 4/5
Jake Euker
F5 (Wichita, KS)
March 8, 2004
Original Score: 2/5
Daniel M. Kimmel
Worcester Telegram & Gazette
February 8, 2004
Original Score: 3/5
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