Stargate: Critic Reviews

[A] loopy, mostly entertaining sci-fi adventure.

The movie Ed Wood, about the worst director of all time, was made to prepare us for Stargate.

A cinematic fireworks show without the grand finale.

Promising setup killed by action-film cliches.

"Has matured wonderfully, sustaining as a curious genre exercise in blockbuster yearn marked by surprising buoyancy, madly entertaining performances, and a fertile cinematic imagination behind the camera not yet corrupted by massive box office success."

Still, this is a decent little diversion, the kind of pure popcorn fodder that would find a far more ballsy form when Will Smith took on city-sized flying saucers in Independence Day.

The main problem with Stargate is not with set-up, but with execution. After a while you feel like you're just watching weird people staggering around a desert.

A load of outer space codswallop!