I had never seen this movie and when I saw that it was on TV, I had to watch it because it stars Kurt Russell (Backdraft) as Col. Jack O'Neil, whose witnessed the one thing that he has a hard time living with and that is his own son shot himself with Daddy's gun. O'Neil gets called back into action because archaeologists have discovered some sort of gate buried in Egypt. They enlist the help of Egyptologist (James Spader) named Dr. Daniel Jackson, whose sort of not taken serious by his peers, but he gets the chance of a lifetime when he discovers how to open the gate. They travel into a Parallel universe that looks exactly like Egypt containing slaves that worship the God Ra who is actually an alien. The soon discovers that they have trouble as the only way to get back from the side they are now on needs the last piece of the puzzle top open the gate. At the same time Spader falls in love with a slave girl (Mili Avital) and helps her and the other slaves revolt against this alien pretending to be a God. I thought the movie was very good and I can now understand how it would spawn a TV show. The movie also stars Alexis Cruz (Drag Me To Hell), John Diehl (A Time To Kill), Djimon Hounsou (Gladiator), Erick Avari (The Mummy), and French Stewart (Love Stinks). I give the movie a B-.
