Before they unleashed the idiotic mayhem of Independence Day and Godzilla, the idea-stealing team of director Roland Emmerich and producer-screenwriter Dean Devlin concocted this hokey hit about the discovery of an ancient portal capable of zipping travelers to "the other side of the known universe." James Spader plays the Egyptologist who successfully translates the Stargate's hieroglyphic code, and then joins a hawkish military unit (led by Kurt Russell) on a reconnaissance mission to see what's on the other side. They arrive on a desert world with cultural (and apparently supernatural) ties to Earth's ancient Egypt, where the sun god Ra (played by Jaye Davidson from The Crying Game) rules a population of slaves with armored minions and startlingly advanced technology. After being warmly welcomed into the slave camp, the earthlings encourage and support a rebellion, and while Russell threatens to blow up the Stargate to prevent its use by enemy forces, the movie collapses into a senseless series of action scenes and grandiose explosions. It's all pretty ridiculous, but Stargate found a large and appreciative audience, spawned a cable-TV series, and continues to attract science fiction fans who are more than willing to forgive its considerable faults.

Stargate: The Movie As a Archaeologist and Linguist, Dr Daniel Jackson has theorised that it was not the Ancient Egyptians who built the Pyramids but the original creators who had lived long before them. When he tries to tell the worlds top archaeologists about his theories and beliefs they are far from impressed and by doing so he has destroyed his career for good. He is evicted from his home, he has no more grants and has no where to go. When he thinks all is lost, he is approached by Catherine Langford to do some top secret translation work in an abandoned nuclear silo, as he has nothing else to do and no money he accepts. The work is at a US Military Installation, Creek Mountain, Colorado. In 14 days he solves the puzzle that a team of scientists have been working on for two years. A circle made of a material not of Earth, had discovered in Giza in 1928 by Catherine's father. The cover stone that was over it calls it a Stargate and talks of a gateway between worlds. The cover stone contained on it 2 lines of hieroglyphics. The outer track contained symbols not known to anyone. Daniel Jackson recognises that these aren't actually symbols but star constellations and realises that they are co-ordinated and 7 of them are needed to form a map, 6 to determine the destination 1 as the point of origin. The scientists had found 6 but Daniel Jackson finds the 7th point of origin. When it was entered in on the computer it opened a stable wormhole to another planet (Abydos) in the Kalien Galaxy, on the other side of the known universe! A team is assembled to go through the gate; Daniel goes with them as he's the only one who can determine the co-ordinates needed on the other side to get them back as wormhole travel is only one way. The leader is Colonel Jack O'Neill of the US Air force. His remit is simple, but secret, to determine if the gate is a threat to Earth and if it is to stay there and close it, permanently with a bomb. He's prepared to take on the suicide mission as his son has recently killed in an accident, with Jacks gun, and Jack feels he has nothing to live for. When they reach the other side there is no cover stone for Daniel to fix the point of origin from, and so he can't get them home. They start searching the planet and find a town where the people think they are from the Sun God Ra. They also find out that reading and writing is forbidden and this is the reason to why there are no writings of the gate address back home. Even with Daniel's linguistic skills, he is unable to communicate with the people, as they appear to speak a language unknown to him. Daniel is given the headman's daughter, Sha'uri, as a gift, and while he first says no, he soon falls in love with her and accepts her. Sha'uri takes Daniel to see the only piece of writing that is on the planet, the Abydos Cartouche. Here he learns that the language they speak is ancient Egyptian, with a different pronunciation of words, and so he is able to start to communicate with them. In here he also finds hieroglyphs similar to those found in Egypt telling him the story of Ra the Sun God, who used humans for slaves. The slaves on Earth revolted and Ra escaped, with some humans through the Stargate to another planet where they were mining a material he needed for his technology. The gate on Earth was buried. The people of Abydos are humans! Jack also gets befriended by some of the children of Abydos, one in particular, Skaara really idolises Jack. Also found in the Abydos Cartouche is the home address that they are looking for with one difference, the 7th symbol is missing. Unfortunately, Ra is more than a myth, he is in fact a human whose body is being controlled and used by a parasitic alien life form. Worst of all is that he has returned to Abydos to collect the mineral which the people of Abydos are mining for it, although he is unhappy to find the team there. He has also found the bomb which Jack has brought with him, and decides to use it to destroy Earth by sending it back through the Stargate along with the mineral which would increase the power of the bomb hundredfold. They get involved in a fight for not only their survival but the survival of the people of Abydos, and Earth! [ Transcripts ] - [ Bloopers ]