Stargate (Extended Cut) [Blu-ray]
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Actor: Alexis Cruz, James Spader, Kurt Russell, Mili Avital, Viveca LindforsBrand: Lions Gate
Blu-ray: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language)
Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Subtitled
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 128 minutes
Blu-ray Release Date: 2006-08-29
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Lions Gate
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Blu-ray Review: To another world
Summary: 3 Stars
"Stargate" is, obviously, the movie that later spawned the hit "Stargate SG-1" TV series, and its spinoffs and side-movies. For that alone, it deserves a pat on the back.
But taken on its own merits, "Stargate" is a pretty entertaining blockbuster with some big flaws. It uncomfortably straddles the fence between "shoot-em-up bombs'n'action" and "mythology sci-fi," but provides a solid villain, some sketchy writing, and the foundation for a hit TV show. Well, it's definitely far better than your average sci-fi blockbuster.
Egyptologist Daniel Jackson (James Spader) has just lost his job, when a mysterious old lady invites him to become involved in a secret military project. Soon he finds out why -- a massive stone ring found in Giza decades ago, with strange symbols on a central ring. When they use his calculations, the Air Force is able to open a wormhole to a distant galaxy.
Obviously a recon team is sent through, led by the grieving Colonel O'Neil (Kurt Russell). This new world is a desert planet, inhabited by a race of primitive human slaves who practically worship the strangers. But things turn deadly when a pyramid ship descends on the desert, and a malevolent "god" decides to obliterate Earth -- using a nuclear bomb O'Neil brought along.
It's a pretty straightforward action plot -- scientist opens gateway to new planet, bad guy shows up and makes trouble, good guys attack bad guy with the help of plucky natives who don't have a snowball's chance without outisde help. "Stargate" doesn't add much to the typical formula, but it does dress it up with gilded robes, massive ruins, ancient aliens, giant stone statues, glittering starships and sandswept deserts.
In fact, spectacle is what "Stargate" excels at -- it has big armies of invading, big ships, big pyramids, and big battles with Ra's serpent-headed alien warriors. When it comes to gun battles and explosions, Roland Emmerich does a pretty decent job. However, the director apparently gets mesmerized by the gilded interior of Ra's starship and the prettyboy alien slinking around, because the middle part of the movie is very slow-moving.
It's more clumsy at the intimate stuff of character development, such as Daniel's serious romance with a chief's daughter, or O'Neil's depression over his son. It just never feels natural or deep, no matter how hard the actors try. The accompanying dialogue is usually pretty solid, but sometimes gets downright clumsy ("I don't want to die. Your men don't want to die. These people don't want to die. It's a shame you're in such a hurry to").
Spade pretty much steals the show as a lovable geek who sticks to his guns, even if it makes him a laughingstock among the rough'n'tough soldiers around him. And the geek gets the girl, not the military grunts -- a nice change. Russell is stuck with a rather stiff, humourless military man, although he loosens up in the last lap ("How ya doin'? Hmm?"). And Alexis Cruz, Mili Avital and Erick Avari all get kudos for making the lovable, deep characters come alive without a word of English being spoken.
"Stargate" is a fun movie for the spectacle and slam-bang action scenes, so long as the weak scripting doesn't hold you up. And it served as a good foundation for one of the best "exploration" sci-fi series in ages.
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