Stargate (1994) - Movie Review

[caption id="attachment_385" align="alignright" width="353"] Official Score = 2 Devils[/caption]

When I was a kid I was like a lot of Science Fiction geeks, I liked just about everything that the Science Fiction genre had to offer, including: Star Trek, Star Wars, Planet Of The Apes, Dune, and even Stargate!

Of course at this point I am sure that with the exception of the truly diehard fans that are out there, most people think that I am talking about, 'Stargate SG1' and it's subsequent spinoffs, in this case I am not... I am talking about the original movie!

I will be honest with you guys and say that probably comparatively speaking that, 'Stargate' is a pretty tame compared to the subsequent TV show adventures that were based on this movie...

Well this movie which was written by: Dean Devlin (Godzilla), Roland Emmerich (The Noah's Ark Principle) & also Directed by: Roland Emmerich, and which stars, Kurt Russell (Escape From LA), James Spader (Lincoln), Jaye Davidson (The Crying Game), Viveca Lindfors (Creepshow), Alexis Cruz (Drag Me To Hell) & Mili Avital (Dead Man) told the story of a secret government project that has been going on for decades and the ramifications of what this object that they have been studying really does!

What I mean by this is that a round circular device is discovered in Egypt, an object that goes all the way back to the ancient Pharoahs, and it had been buried... Well when archaeologists dig it up, it will remain dormant for decades... That is until decades later when the government finally gets the device work...

[caption id="attachment_1917" align="aligncenter" width="480"] Colonel Jack O'Neil (Kurt Russell), and Dr. Daniel Jackson (James Spader), when they make it to the new planet.[/caption]

With the help of an Egyptologist by the name of Dr. Daniel Jackson (James Spader), they finally get this device open once and for all... Once done they send Daniel, and a military team lead by Colonel Jack O'Neil (Kurt Russell), a decorated soldier who is a little bit of a loose cannon do to the fact that he just recently lost his son, has been called up and a long with Daniel the military team go tot he new planet.

[caption id="attachment_1919" align="aligncenter" width="480"] The soldiers and the planets inhabitants as they are fighting for their lives![/caption]

But when the assembled team does finally make it to the other planet, they are absolutely amazed at the wonder of the whole experience of being on another planet, and the fact that the inhabitants of this planet happen to be ancient humans that had been transplanted to this new planet, but there is another darker side to this new planet, and when it arrives for it's tribute, Colonel O'Neil, his team and the rest of the planet will literally have to fight for their lives against this evil before it goes for more tribute!

In the end this movie is truly a fun one, I mean it has a great story line, great cast, great special effects and music... The only problem is that the bad guys seemed to be intentionally dressed scantily, and act in a weird way... Also in the end, really the only other problem that I had with the movie is the fact that the way it was filmed was just not as good as any of the TV shows!

Never the less, if you get a chance, check it out, it is a fun one and well worth your time:

http://youtu.be/kiJtZUPvJxY

Universal Solider (1992) - Movie Review

[caption id="attachment_325" align="alignright" width="263"] Official Score = 3 Devils[/caption]

When I was a kid (as I am sure was the case with a lot of us that grew up watching action films in the 1990s), we can all remember the good ole days when the movies that Jean-Claude Van Damme (Time Cop) didn’t suck!

Well that isn't entirely fair of me to say, the main reason that I say that, is that for the last many years, Van Damme has been doing really low grade films that didn't sound to good to me (although, I have heard that he has been picking up the pace, what with having recently done, The Expendables 2 (2012) and the latest sequel in the Universal Soldier franchise!

And speaking of the Universal Soldier franchise, I thought that I would review the first Universal Soldier movie as this movie holds a special place for me as this was the first movie that I ever saw of his in the Theater!

That’s right folks, you see, this movie, which was directed by: Roland Emmerich (The Noah’s Ark Principal), and which stars Van Damme, Dolph Lundgren (The Punisher) and Ally Roberts (The Profiler), told the story of how in the early 90s, the government decides to revive dead Soldiers that had died in combat at some point in the last 30 years and enhance them in every way so that they could become a sort of genetic super solder…

The only problem is that two of the genetic super soldiers that died in Vietnam and had been brought back to life for this program, by the name of Luc Deveraux (Van Damme) and Andrew Scott (Lundgren)…

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="420"] The Universal Soldiers in action![/caption]

Now before Deveraux had passed away, he was sort of a mild mannered good soldier that was fighting for his country like any other good soldier would have done, but Andrew Scott had been suffering from combat fatigue and was starting to get more and more violent in the way that he would kill the enemy!

In the end though, as both Luc and Andrew begin to remember their old lives, Luc starts to want to get back to the life he had led before he died in Vietnam, but before he can do so, he has to try and stop Andrew Scott from continuing with the bloody massacre in the United States in the early 90s, that he had started in Vietnam decades before!

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Luc Deveraux (Jean-Claude Van Damme) a re-animated super soldier who is about to remember who he really is![/caption]

For me, I have to admit that I still freakin love this movie! It had a great cast of action super stars at what I still believe to be the height of their careers, it had a fun (somewhat believable) story line, as well as fantastic special effects that I still think are pretty awesome!

All in all, if you have a chance to see this movie, then I highly recommend it, it is a fun one, that you might like as well!

http://youtu.be/gBUTgd4M6w8