This science fiction movie was released in 1994 to a box-office success but a mixed critical reaction. Some critics praised it for its special effects, but it was also criticized for the same reason.
The movie has a military team teleporting through a giant ring transporters (the Stargate, hence the title), and end winding up on a desert planet that is ruled by Egyptian gods. We later discover that the Egyptian gods were fake all along, wearing fake, robotic type masks.
Stargate does have very cool special effects, and I would say that the first quarter of the movie or so is quite well done (well, as an action/adventure flick), as it heats up the suspension. But unfortunately, after we find out what’s really going on and have got everything figured out, it turns into action-packed explosive gun shooting with the local tribesman acquiring guns from the military team and joining the team in battling it out with the bad guys. And that is what ruins the first quarter of the movie that I liked. Still, the overdone action in the rest of the film I guess was done for entertainment, but it could have still been entertaining had they lessened that up, because it made the tense, suspenseful, thrilling and mysterious first quarter of the movie or so forgotten.
Like several other movies, Stargate fell under the fact that it messed up the first, good part of the movie by overdoing action and loosing the suspense. And this isn’t the first time or the last time that I’ve seen that happen.
Grade: C+
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