Sahara (2005)

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Hunting for a ship that no one else thinks exists, Dirk, Al, and Eva must rely on their wits and their daring heroics to outsmart dangerous warlords, survive the threatening terrain, and get to the bottom of both

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There are times when Sahara threatens to put its audience to sleep. The film is top-heavy with exposition. In fact, it takes 40 minutes before we get to the first major action sequence. After that, they come fairly regularly throughout the rest of the movie, but there are still significant breaks in between. 

I enjoyed this movie on its own dumb level, which must mean (I am forced to conclude) in my own dumb way. I perceive that I have supplied mostly a description of what happens in the film, filtered through my own skewed amusement. 

--Roger Ebert (Chicago Sun-Times)

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The gang-written screenplay does take many liberties with the novel, not least turning it into a slapstick action comedy. But Cussler has himself to blame for approving the rookie Eisner as director.

--Jack Mathews (New York Daily News)

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Action-adventure flick starring Matthew McConaughey and Steve Zahn as a pair of explorers who run into a mysterious plague epidemic while searching Africa for a lost Civil War battleship. 

--Matthew Turner (ViewLondon)

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There's lots of mysteriousness going on, along with the jumping onto moving trains and the cracking wise, and I thought I had it all figured out early on...

--MaryAnn Johanson

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Like a child witnessing a drunken patriarch crash a family reunion, you’ll feel damned near uncomfortable as you count the minutes on your watch until Sahara reaches an agonizing finish. 

--JP Mangalindan (MovieWeb)

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Director Breck Eisner does a fairly decent job of keeping the action flowing and filling plot holes with one-liners. He also handles the action shots without showing off. I’m tired of seeing action films where the director feels the need to include everytrick he learned in film school. “Sahara’s” action is in your face, gritty, and real. B

--Rebecca Murray (About.com)

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Sahara is practically graveling for a sequel by the end credits. And if Eisner can get a script that isn’t so formulaic a second time around, I don’t doubt another installment could be a welcomed improvement. 

--Laura Kyle (eFilmCritic.com)

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Sahara is not a perfect film. It contains a few creaks in the plot here and there, the length could be shortened, and the bad guys try to do the same things other action heroes have stopped them from doing since the invention of cinema. Still, the film'sunique personal humor and its rollicking sense of adventure go a long way toward taking the rust off this jalopy of a genre.

--Adam J. Hakari

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Cast

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Sahara is a big budget bore, strictly for people who are entertained by mindless action pieces or beautiful African scenery. There really isn't much else here to recommend, and even Clive Cussler fans will probably come away disappointed at how the 700+ page book has been gutted down to about five or six extended action sequences and not enough expository information to hold them together.  --Vince Leo (Qwipster.net) Sahara is never as entertaining as we imagine it will be, nor is it anything we haven't seen before. There were times when I got caught up in Sahara, but never was I swept away.  --Jack Moore (The Movie Insider) The plot of the film is absurd, of course, but it is also highly tongue-in-cheek. Nobody's trying to make a serious film here, just a big, dumb, entertaining adventure with comic elements. As such, it works.  --Robert Roten "Sahara" is pretty much an excuse for McConaughey (one of several executive producers) to flex his gym-toned assets and play tough on boats, trains and camels. --Desson Thomson (Washington Post)

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