 | Stargate Ultimate Edition
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Sales Rank: 1,249
Actors: Kurt Russell, James Spader, Viveca Lindfors, Alexis Cruz, Mili Avital
Director: Roland Emmerich
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Features: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Number of Discs: 1
Running Time: 119 minutes
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Release Date: February 17, 2003
Theatrical Release Date: October 28, 1994
Studio: Lions Gate |
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| Before they unleashed the idiotic mayhem of Independence Day and Godzilla, the idea-stealing team of director Roland Emmerich and producer-screenwriter Dean Devlin concocted this hokey hit about the discovery of an ancient portal capable of zipping travelers to "the other side of the known universe." James Spader plays the Egyptologist who successfully translates the Stargate's hieroglyphic code, and then joins a hawkish military unit led by Kurt Russell on a reconnaissance mission to see what's on the other side. They arrive on a desert world with cultural and apparently supernatural ties to Earth's ancient Egypt, where the sun god Ra played by Jaye Davidson from The Crying Game rules a population of slaves with armored minions and startlingly advanced technology. After being warmly welcomed into the slave camp, the earthlings encourage and support a rebellion, and while Russell threatens to blow up the Stargate to prevent its use by enemy forces, the movie collapses into a senseless series of action scenes and grandiose explosions. It's all pretty ridiculous, but Stargate found a large and appreciative audience, spawned a cable-TV series, and continues to attract science fiction fans who are more than willing to forgive its considerable faults. --Jeff Shannon |
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