A good movie

Already 20 years ago, they released this flick, it has been a while since I have seen it and I should definitely re-watch it at some point. To be honest, even though the TV show was quite popular (the first version ran for 10 years starring good old Richard Dean Anderson AKA MacGyver), I never really followed it but I always had a weak spot for the film that started it all. Of course, the whole concept is completely far-fetched but that’s the beauty of Science-Fiction, you can show pretty much everything you want and, here, they went pretty wild but I really enjoyed this weird Egyptian world which was visually quite interesting. Obviously, Kurt Russell and James Spader were playing some stereotypes, the tough soldier and the nerdy scientist but it didn’t bother me. Since then, this movie has become pretty much a cult-classic but not everybody agreed and the great Roger Ebert really didn’t like it at all so it shows that even though the whole thing definitely had some potential, it was still not really great. To conclude, I still think it is a solid and entertaining SF feature and it is definitely worth a look, especially if you like the genre.

7/10