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A mediocre sci-fi/action film released in 1994. The movie was built on an intruiging premise, namely that Ancient Egyptian civilization was influenced by extra-terrestrials possessing matter transportation devices called "Stargates". Unfortunately, from a promising beginning, with the military's recruitment of a brilliant (but quirky) Egyptologist (played by James Spader), the movie quickly degenerates into another typical Hollywood action flick. |
A science fiction film/action film released in 1994, directed by [Roland Emmerich]? and written by [Dean Devlin]? and [Roland Emmerich]?. See also wikipedia contains spoilers.StorylineIn 1921, an expedition searching for ancient Egypt relics discoveres a large metal ring near the city of Gizeh?, which is confiscated by the U.S. military for study. In the present (of the movie viewer), the brilliant (but quirky) Egyptologist Daniel Jackson (played by James Spader) is hired to decipher the symbols on the mysterious ring. It turns out to be a Stargate, an alien device that enables almost instantanious travel to a complementary device on another planet, and the symbols are encoded dialing numbers. Upon this discovery, Jackson and a a military team lead by Colonel Jonathan "Jack" O'Neil (played by [Kurt Russell]?) embark through the Stargate to a desert planet called Ebidos. There, they find a small human civilization enslaved by an alien playing the role of (or being?) Ra?, the ancient Egyptian sun god, possessing a human body that is continuously regenerated in a high-tech sarcophagus?. I turns out that Ra had humans enslaved on both planets, but the earth humans rebeled and closed the Stargate. While Ra plans to destroy Earth by sending a bomb through the reopened gate, the Earth group sparks a rebellion among the Ebidos population, resulting in the death of Ra and the destruction of his starship. The movie inspired a television series by the name of [Stargate SG-1]?, which still airs today. Old contents, clearly not NPOV: The movie was built on an intruiging premise, namely that Ancient Egyptian civilization was influenced by extra-terrestrials possessing matter transportation devices called "Stargates". Unfortunately, from a promising beginning, with the military's recruitment of a brilliant (but quirky) Egyptologist (played by James Spader), the movie quickly degenerates into another typical Hollywood action flick. |
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Perplexingly, the movie inspired a television series by the name of "[Stargate SG-1]?", which still airs today. |
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