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For having a relatively low budget, the film's style and overall art direction are immensely impressive.

It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties. It's a feast for the eyes. But what really makes this dramedy work is the acting.

All I have to say is Mili Avital is gorgeous... :)

Boy could this have been a great film.Emmerich is his own worst enemy. Great director but letting him write may not be the smartest idea.The first act is wonderful. Great writing. Great casting. Russell is and always will be one of the great macho men of the era. (You gotta see SOLDIER! WOW!) Spader also was under-rated in the day. Watch him reappear out of nowhere in The Blacklist and you will start to see what he is capable of.Former beauty queen and movie star Viveca Lindfors even got a great cameo just a year before her untimely passing.Great start but if you even blinked suddenly you were in a bad B-movie with no obvious plot, script, or purpose.The IMDb rating is a kindness I think, a reflection of what could have been.Hollywood has done a remake of everything except the telephone book. Why not this?

now that the heading is in bold, we can get back to writing in normal letters. This is one of my all time favorite films. Everything in this film makes me appreciate it. From the great acting ensemble. To the amazing CGI that still holds it ground in today's cinema, to the incredible story. With a lot of people saying that it has similarities with Star Trak is just nonsense. While Star Trak is set in space, and deals more of racial sub topics and is more of a political drama based show/ movies. Stargate deals with other planets and Earth, not much in space. and it focus on ancient religion and believes of help from other beings.The story of the rings being used as gate way travel to distant worlds is pretty Awesome, and the film is also very smart on how they achieve communication between all the different species by having them all have some ancient language in common as they all have ancient gods who they fear or believe in.This is an incredibly awesome film, with some really cool action scenes, very well written dialogue and really great acting from Kurt Russell and James Spader

First of all: I love how this movie manages to make a scenario where a linguist somehow is the heroic explorer, much like Indiana Jones put archeology in the spotlight. In fact, a comparison with Indiana Jones is apt, because it's obvious that this movie is heavily inspired by that franchise - although it goes in a completely different direction.I have barely seen the TV-show, so I went into this knowing only somewhat what the stargate is. I love the premise of it, and how it manages to explore both mythology and sci-fi concepts. I can really understand that they decided to make a TV-show out of this.A last note on positives, before I go into the flaws: There's some really neat visuals in this as well, especially concerning the pyramids, and some of the villain henchmen's costumes.The flaws, though, are many and quite bad. For one, all characters are basically idiots that somehow seem intent on making the worst possible decisions. This is a really cheap trick for inducing conflict, it is also really annoying, and condescending to the audience. Most of it could be avoided by better writing. Just as serious is how this movie seems to parallel some big problems with colonialism without really noticing. There is literally a scene where one explorer is sick, sneezes, and then his handkerchief is taken by "indigenous"-like people that has obviously never been exposed to his germs (though the movie does not comment upon this at all). There's also scenes where the explorers give the indigenous weapons and cigarettes. Was it to build up a more direct colonial plot for a possibly sequel? For some reason, it does not feel like it. It seems more like dumb writing.There's also some scenes that have become a bit more uncomfortable due to modern conflicts. There are scenes set in areas resembling the middle east, where kids are handed automatic weapons to fight against what is basically drones.Despite all of these flaws, the concept (and the visuals) makes it worth a watch, perhaps to ponder what could have been?