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...movie, which does have a sort of cheeky energy, goes into narrative and cliche overload once the spacemen start exploring the unnamed planet -- Shall we call it Lucasland? -- where they set down. There's a slave population to be freed, a tyrant to be deposed, some cheapish special effects to put on display, and a lot of problems about getting safely back to Earth to solve. Tying all this together, Stargate stumbles to a hasty, muddled ending instead of soaring to a conclusion worthy of the only thing that's first rate about it -- its sources...
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