Sahara

2005

Action / Adventure / Comedy / Thriller / War / Western

50
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 38% · 177 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 53% · 100K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.0/10 10 103318 103.3K

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Plot summary

Seasoned adventurer and treasure hunter Dirk Pitt, a former Navy SEAL, sets out for the African desert with his wisecracking buddy Al in search of a confederate ironclad battleship rumored to have vanished long ago, the main draw being the treasure supposedly hidden within the lost vessel. When the daring duo come across Dr. Eva Rojas, a beautiful scientist who is juggling an escape from a warlord and a mission to stop the spread of a powerful plague, their desert expedition begins to heat up.


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May 17, 2012 at 04:07 PM

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Matthew McConaughey as Dirk Pitt
Rainn Wilson as Rudi Gunn
William H. Macy as Admiral Jim Sandecker
Penélope Cruz as Eva Rojas
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by ChrisinDesMoines 8 / 10

I don't get the unpopularity

I've come to the conclusion that this is one of those movies that you either love or you hate, and I'm one of the "love it" guys.

In some ways you can compare it to your typical James Bond movie, the girl everyone wants and the guy that everyone wants to be like, but if it's cut from the same bolt of cloth, Dirk Pitt (McConaughey) is fraying at the edges. I've tried reading some of Clive Cussler's books, but not exactly my style, but both movies based on his material (Sahara and Raise the Titanic) are decent enough movies with this one being the better of the two (and apart from the news article regarding the Titanic during the opening credits you wouldn't know it was connected). Dirk Pitt is portrayed wildly different in both movies with this one being more action and humor oriented.

Movie is easy enough to find and watch for free on streaming services so if you have a Roku just do a search for it. If it isn't available when you do search for it, sit tight, it will make another round of availability soon enough. Definitely worth it if you're looking for an action/adventure style buddy movie with humor.

Reviewed by bkoganbing 7 / 10

More Valuable Than Confederate Gold

Matthew McConaughey has developed into one of the bigger action/adventure stars over the last decade and its with films like Sahara that he's gotten that reputation. Thirty years ago I could have seen Clint Eastwood doing a film like this, sixty years ago it could have been John Wayne.

Sahara finds McConaughey as a fellow more used to working on sea than on land, he's a salvage diver and one of the best. He's on the trail of one of those wildly improbable tales that you would find in pulp fiction adventure stories and the films made from them back in the day. A Merrimac type ironclad, captained by a friend of President Jefferson Davis sailed away with a whole treasure of Confederate gold just before the Civil War ended. Improbable because those ships were never meant for long ocean voyages, yet the legend has it that it made its way to Africa and sailed up the Niger River and is now somewhere in Mali, one of Africa's poorest developing countries.

That's what he and sidekick Steve Zahn are after, but their paths cross that of Doctor Penelope Cruz with the World Health Organization seeking the cause of some strange new plague. The source is in the same neighborhood, so the two become allies and a bit more than that.

Both also run afoul the local warlord Lennie James. Though he would no doubt love to find the treasure McConaughey is seeking, in Africa the medical supplies and knowledge of Cruz is far more valuable than gold. It's a commodity with a huge price tag.

Sahara bears a close resemblance to the Indiana Jones films for both spectacle and pace. But the film also deals with some serious issues about the poorest of the earth's continents in the same vein as Blood Diamond. It's the kind of old fashioned story that Hollywood used to film on the studio back lots. No back lots here though, Sahara is filmed right on the Sahara, albeit in the far more stable country of Morocco.

If you like the old fashioned kind of action/adventure film, Sahara is definitely one for you.

Reviewed by TheLittleSongbird 8 / 10

A solid adventure yarn and very underrated

I love adventure and action movies as much as the next person. Sahara is not the best I've seen, but there are worse out there. Clive Cussler's source material is a wonderful piece of work, and due to have more succinct writing and a more engaging story-the story here has alterations- is superior. But the film is a solid and underrated film in its own right.

Plus I usually don't like comparing movies to their source material, to me they're different mediums and should be judged on their own merits..

I often have heard and seen comparisons with the Indianna Jones movies, and that Sahara rips them off. I love those movies, well the first three anyway(fourth was mediocre) but to me while Sahara does have that vibe and like the Indy movies are adventure/action films they are all different and recommendable films in their own way.

Sahara mayn't be perfect, while the script is mostly witty and the story exciting and engaging, there can be some disbelief in the dialogue and the film meanders at the end both in credibility and pacing.

However, Sahara is visually stunning. I have seen many visually beautiful films, but with the majestic landscapes/settings and sparkling cinematography that has an epic sweep to it it is one of the more visually stunning films I've seen recently.

The soundtrack is also very well done, fitting with both the tone and genre and memorable. The action is every bit as exciting as the story and well choreographed and the direction is solid. I thought the acting was fine on the most part, Matthew McConaughey has just the right charisma for the role, and Penelope Cruz is beautiful and suitably foxy.

Steve Zahn has some great humorous lines and scenes and thankfully doesn't grate, William H. Macy is perfect here and likewise with a very enjoyable Lennie James. Delroy Lindo on the other hand is rather underused.

Overall, solid, fun and underrated. Not perfect but better than some have said, at least in my view. 8/10 Bethany Cox

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