The trailer doesn't do this film justice, and I can't honestly believe I was 14 when this came out. Crazy.
I am a sci-fi junkie nerd and love almost all of the sci-fi films that were from the 1990's and before. They were just brimming full of imagination and awesomeness. I bow in awe to the imagination of the writers back then because they sure don't make the cut now. With their weak willed attempts at sci fi, glossed over by the teflon shine of Disney. But that's a story for another day.
This story on the other hand begins with Daniel, a crazy scientist who believed that the pyramids were not ancient tombs for the Egyptian Pharaohs, but more so landing pads for superior and space worthy ships. Of course Daniel struggles to get any recognition from anyone, as soon as he starts talking about Aliens and Spaceships then he's laughed at and loses all of his audience as they begin to leave.
That's when he is approached by Catherine Langford and he is taken from his talk to a secret underground bunker in Colorado Springs under the mountains where the US Army is up to its tricks again with secret experiments. He is asked to work out a puzzle they had in ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics, to which he promptly solves.
That's where they show him the Stargate and as a test, they pump in the co-ordinates he deciphered and it opens the gate. A blue light flashes after several moments of thunderous shaking and the whole room is blinded to what looks like portal filled with water. It's the first time they've ever opened it and now they are curious as to what lies beyond.
That's when Daniel realises he's going through the gate, and despite protests, Colonel O'Neill (played by Kurt Russel) assembles a gate team together including Daniel as their main scientist. They have to go through now that they've opened it and everyone has the burning curiosity of where it leads to.
Ah, human curiosity.. it never gets old!
Anyway, after several scenes of CGI and showing the team going through the Portal they arrive in a dark room where light is barely visible apart from the glowing portal behind them that they've just travelled through. They light up some flares and cautiously move out of the building, guns at the ready in case they come across any hostiles.
They come to the entrance and realise they are on a different planet. The planet also seems a desert planet, that's very hot and has more than one sun. Crazy, right? Yup. Anyway. The team find out that they cannot dial home because some of the co-ordinates are missing on this strange new planet. That's when they begin to get angry at Daniel.
As Daniel was walking around trying to find a way home he finds an animal which looks domesticated because it has a harness. The animal is then frightened and catches Daniel by accident with his harness and runs away, taking Daniel along with it.
That's when they stumble on what looks to be like a people of basic nature mining some kind of element at a mining hole. Then, the story unfolds in some crazy and interesting ways.
You'll enjoy it if you like sci fi, and are a bit of a sci fi geek like me. There's several spin of series too from this film alone which I completely loved.
Would definitely recommend it.