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Stargate
50 years after finding out a strange device in Egypt, that they cannot deal with it and do not know how to open it, Daniel Jakson, a great scholar, manages to open the device and travels with a team to another planet where people are run by God Ra, who prepares an army to destroy the earth.
20 February 1964, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
30 March 1972, Jerusalem, Israel
29 December 1920, Uppsala, Uppsala län, Sweden
11 July 1962, McLean, Virginia, USA
22 November 1956, Trenton, New Jersey, USA
13 April 1952, Darjeeling, West Bengal, India
5 January 1909, Paris, France
3 December 1952, Insel Fehmarn, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
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.February 12, 2003
A load of outer space codswallop!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
[A] loopy, mostly entertaining sci-fi adventure.February 12, 2003
Roland Emmerich's reign of terror begins ...January 01, 2000
A cinematic fireworks show without the grand finale.January 02, 2011
Promising setup killed by action-film cliches.January 01, 2000
The movie Ed Wood, about the worst director of all time, was made to prepare us for Stargate.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.