Pretty Good

As Good As It Gets

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

The wrapped up nicely from the questions left at the end of the TV series, but still left plenty of openings for the next Stargate movie.While the production was top notch as I would expect, it did feel very much like an extended episode rather than a blockbuster movie, which is essentially what this was, a way to wrap up questions and not leave fans hanging for answers...The problem I had was it felt very much like it was the basic story- line for a season arc, but squashed to fit in a 90 minute slot.I recommend any Stargate fan to buy this, but unless you are a fan, this will have little appeal, since it ties into what happened in the last SG1 season.

SG1 is looking for the ultimate weapon against the Ori. Mitchell (Ben Browder), Jackson (Michael Shanks), Carter (Amanda Tapping), Teal'c (Christopher Judge) and Vala (Claudia Black) are on Dakara. They find a box but is then captured by the Ori led by Tomin (Tim Guinee). Mitchell kills the Prior and a shocked Tomin surrenders. James Marrick is an IOA representative who joins the team to search for the Ark of Truth in the Ori galaxy. He tries to unleash the Replicators on the Ori in a secret IOA mission.It's a TV movie meant to finish off the Ori storyline after the TV show was canceled. This is obviously only for the fans of the TV show. It is interesting to continue after the show's cancellation. It suffers a bit from too many story elements. Fans of the show should easily follow but I sure wouldn't want to be non-fans watching this. As for the story, it lacks drama. It seems like they added the Replicators to spice things up.

This movie felt like a pay off, a cheap, horrific way to end Stargate. Adria's character was obviously torn to shreds for one- from the calm, mature if not evil/brainwashed Orici, into an egomaniac whose relation ship with Vala gets a handful of lines- no stuff with Daniel... not a thing and we just jump into the vision thing with Morgan.They could have fixed this easy- take out the part with the replicators, Sam was, with all the happy character stuff that they started in season ten, well one step forward twelve million back.Mitchell, never been a fan, but he got kicked around for nothing but ouch poor abused character, and don't get me started on the whole I.O.A storyline.... which should never have left Earth.Teal'c was the only character that showed any good stuff this time round, his empathy with Tomin genuinely wrenching. Unlike the scene with Morgan Le Fay vs Adria. Rip off season eight's Anubis vs Oma Desala.This was a scrap they gave us for canceling Stargate SG1, they owed us a season to conclude... even Farscape got the PeaceKeeper wars a over three hour long conclusion.I refuse to watch Stargate Atlantis, buy its DVDs because Sci Fi made a huge mistake and while SG1 shouldn't be penalized, Sci Fi shouldn't just get to continue like nothing happened.Advice- rent, don't buy it... and stop watching new science fiction type shows, it only hurts more when they cancel it.

Ark of Truth was a decent conclusion to season 10, but it was quite scatter-shot in the writing. I am a long time fan of SG1, but i felt cheated by this "movie".Why oh why bring back the relicaaatoooorsss, as Thor would say. When that scene played out when they were reveled, I sad to myself, OH NO...Please no more.The epic battle of Ancient/Ori just another light show like the " death of Anubus" Cookies and a kiss???? really??? Thought Carter and ONeall had hooked up by now. Jack should kick Cam's butt for that, but he was smart enough to stay away from this "mission"All in all, I really wish I had just rented this extended episode. I complain about movie ticket prices, yet i paid twice that amount for a DVD I will probably never watch again.