They find a land that recalls Egypt and humans in a primitive culture that worship and are slaves to Ra, the God of the Sun. But soon they discover the secret of the mysterious "stargate".

Moreover, Davidson's Ra injects "Stargate" with stylistic panache, introducing mayhem to the fight sequences that have come to shape the kind of combat that is emblematic of the franchise's ...

They have leaders, of course, known as System Lords, who use their near-immortality to subjugate humanity, such as the false god Ra (Jaye Davidson) in Roland Emmerich's "Stargate." Although all ...