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Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

The stargate features prominently in this movie. That's as it should be.As with the first made for TV movie, this one carries a sense of mystery and wonder not seen in seasons 9 or 10 of SG-1.It's 8 rather than 10 because of a few problems. It's easy to kill off main characters, in slo mo no less, when everything will reset. The second problem is the cop out on having characters meet themselves. Key people are killed - Jack in a lame way - to ensure they don't meet themselves, while others are conveniently out of the way. Cheap! The final problem is a slow middle. When Cam, Sam and Daniel are forced into normal lives, without contact with each other, the movie slows to a crawl. It's as if the writers needed a little bit more, so they added useless padding.The movie continued the tradition of killing Ba'al. He dies multiple times.Watch it.

I remember seeing the original movie and being impressed. In its day it was a risky mix of genres plus the expected overwhelmed by the unexpected. Later I studied the industry and took this film apart in terms of how the concepts were managed. It worked and I know why. Later, the safe parts were made into a lame TeeVee show following the then already lame Star Trek formula. I did not know what to expect coming to this. The first two minutes are an extraordinary tracking shot that sets context, introduces the heroes and establishes the energy of thing. After that, I might as well have been watching William Shatner. In fact, I believe that they hired someone else to direct those first two minutes while a committee of writers was re- engineering the script.There was an opportunity here to do something clever with time travel paradoxes. What we got was Back to the Future" with spaceships and Arctic ice.Ted's Evaluation -- 1 of 3: You can find something better to do with this part of your life.

Maybe to Stargate fans, this movie was acceptable and almost interesting at parts, but to me who have only watched Stargate(1994) it was very hard to find it very captivating at all. The acting in the movie is often hard to swallow, and at parts I find myself almost entirely lost as to why I was watching this. When finally something interesting happens, the realism of the movie falls to an all time low in order to save the plot and make the movie longer than 30 minutes. This of course keeps happening throughout the movie. First when Baal travels back in time and the soldiers without thoroughly searching through the ship take it as a fact that after shooting a lot of people everyone is dead. While this of course was not the fact. Then later when Baal at last is about to destroy the earth which it is unclear why he did, he is murdered by Natesh for some dubious reason about him not telling the truth. It is like most Stargate movies either you have followed the series blindly or you won't understand anything at all.

While I really enjoyed the intensity of the action scenes the plot holes around the time travel where just too painful to tolerate.Example: Ben Browder goes back in time to fix up the time line, doesn't have away back to the future. Does he just stick around in 1939? How about this one: Baal's plan fails in 1939 but he doesn't know it 70 years later at his execution? Another one: Even though Baal's plan is defeated in 1939, with tonnes of evidence laying around and the current stargate group don't know anything about it.A close one: if they didn't explicitly say that Baal was a clone, then you would have the painful paradox of him being killed before he was born and invented the time machine and implementing the plan while in custody awaiting his execution.