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Movie Review for Sahara
Movie Review for
Sahara
53 Reviews total.
Release date: 4/8/2005
Run length: 123 mins.
Categories:
Adaptation
,
Action/Adventure
Summary:
When master explorer Dirk Pitt finds a fabled coin linked to a historical legend, he takes on the adventure of his life as he embarks on a treasure hunt through some of the most dangerous regions of West Africa. As they search for what locals call the “Ship of Death”--a long-lost Civil War battleship that protects a secret cargo--Dirk and his wisecracking sidekick, Al Giordino, meet Dr. Eva Rojas, a beautiful and brilliant doctor who believes that the hidden treasure may be connected to a larger problem that threatens the world around them. 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 mysteries.
Reviews of Sahara
By
Rebecca Murray
of About.com (8/0)
A surprisingly fun action comedy with a cast that connects.
By
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie
of Atlanta Journal-Constitution (8/0)
...raucously nimble and cheerfully silly action adventure that finally gives Matthew McConaughey ...
By
Lori Hoffman
of Atlantic City Weekly (8/0)
Sahara is a movie with Indiana Jones aspirations that plays more like a low-rent 007 clone.
By
Paul Arendt
of BBC (8/0)
Highly entertaining romp from the pen of airport pulp king Clive Cussler.
By
Janice Page
of Boston Globe (8/0)
...a vast waste of creativity...
By
Russ Breimeier
of Christianity Today (8/0)
Vapid, lengthy, and mostly lifeless -- kind of like the desert it's named for.
Reviews of Sahara
By
Jeffrey M. Anderson
of Combustible Celluloid (8/0)
Even the brain-dead National Treasure tried harder than this.
By
Matt Brunson
of Creative Loafing (8/0)
McConaughney plays the role of dashing adventurer Dirk Pitt as if he were a party-hardy frat boy ...
By
David Levine
of E! Online (8/0)
...a monotonous, unsatisfying trek...
By
Erik Childress
of eFilmCritic.com (8/0)
Sahara is such an enigmatic piece of filmmaking that it never settles on a tone and whose downtim...
By
Vince Koehler
of Entertainment Spectrum (8/0)
From the opening civil war naval battle to the closing credits, I was glued to this film with non...
By
Eric D. Snider
of EricDSnider.com (8/0)
A little inventiveness is one thing, but this movie strains credibility at every turn.
Reviews of Sahara
By
David Levine
of filmcritic.com (8/0)
It's no wonder the highly mechanized finished product feels so unfulfilling
By
Todd Gilchrist
of FilmStew.com (8/0)
Then again, women still swoon with lust whenever McConaughey steps in front of the camera, no mat...
By
MaryAnn Johanson
of Flick Filosopher (8/0)
[M]ight actually be worthy of licking the boots of Raiders of the Lost Ark...
By
Peter Canavese
of Groucho Reviews (8/0)
As Hollywood actioners go these days, this ones quite tolerable in its guilty-pleasure way. Feel...
By
Kirk Honeycutt
of Hollywood Reporter (8/0)
...would have been hot stuff about 30 years ago but looks tired and worn today despite a perky, a...
By
Steve Rhodes
of Internet Reviews (8/0)
Is it cheesy fun or just cheesy? Just cheesy.
Reviews of Sahara
By
David Kaplan
of Kaplan vs. Kaplan (6/2)
..a rollicking, wild adventure in which a very buff Matthew McConaughey, and his able sidekick, S...
By
Linda Cook
of KWQC-TV (Iowa) (8/0)
Arid as the sand-covered dunes, Sahara is a made-for-TV flick disguised as the return of Indian...
By
Ken Hanke
of Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) (8/0)
Good-natured junk that amuses while it's onscreen, and evaporates almost immediately afterward.
By
Frank Ochieng
of Movie Eye (8/0)
...will leave a parched sensation in ones dry throat...a recycled buddy-buddy vehicle thats abo...
By
Michael Dequina
of Mr. Brown's Movies (8/0)
Like the African desert that lends the film its name, this so-called adventure is coarse, dry, an...
By
Jeffrey Westhoff
of Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL) (8/0)
Someone had the brilliant idea to treat Sahara as a Hope and Crosby Road picture pasted onto a ...
Reviews of Sahara
By
David Nusair
of Reel Film Reviews (8/0)
...nobody could've expected the unbelievable sense of dullness that's permeating every aspect of ...
By
Peter Travers
of Rolling Stone (8/0)
...has all the heft of marshmallow.
By
Mick LaSalle
of San Francisco Chronicle (8/0)
...an adventure in mediocrity that brings together some of the worst current techniques and trend...
By
Sean McBride
of Sean the Movie Guy (8/0)
Has enough humor and adventure that Im almost willing to overlook the preposterous plot
By
William Arnold
of Seattle Post-Intelligencer (8/0)
...agreeably light in tone and never seems to be trying very hard...
By
Tom Keogh
of Seattle Times (8/0)
Entertaining but flawed popcorn fare.
Reviews of Sahara
By
Nick Schager
of Slant Magazine (8/0)
As dry and lifeless as its sun-burnt locale.
By
Phoebe Flowers
of South Florida Sun-Sentinel (8/0)
When Sahara stops being about Dirk and Al's misadventures and starts being about viruses and mass...
By
Rob Blackwelder
of SPLICEDWire (8/0)
If Sahara weren't quite so dumb, it might have been a lot of fun.
By
Tony Medley
of tonymedley.com (8/0)
Mindless, but fun and entertaining. Its sort of James Bondish without the ridiculous special eff...
By
Claudia Puig
of USA Today (8/0)
...plays out as dryly predictable as the desert's endless dunes.
By
Willie Waffle
of WaffleMovies.com (8/0)
Sahara won't be competing for any Oscars, but it is goofy, light-hearted fun.
Reviews of Sahara
By
Christian Toto
of Washington Times (8/0)
The mindless Sahara is smart enough to keep the action and wisecracks at a fevered clip.
By
John Beifuss
of Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (3/5) Login Required (Login Required)
In one spit-take-inducing moment, our heroes convert a wrecked prop plane into a desert sailboat,...
By
Stephen Holden
of New York Times (3/5) Login Required (Login Required)
...more story than it can comfortably accommodate.
By
Fred Topel
of About.com (4/4) No reference
This is what action movie should be... Dirk Pitt is a hero who would make James Bond buy him a dr...
By
Wade Major
of Boxoffice Magazine (3/5) No reference
The filmmakers move between their two lesser plots with a motley assortment of plot holes, contri...
By
Roger Ebert
of Chicago Sun-Times (3/5) No reference
It's like a fire sale at the action movie discount outlet.
Reviews of Sahara
By
Robert K. Elder
of Chicago Tribune (3/5) No reference
...consistently absurd...
By
Jeff Vice
of Deseret News, Salt Lake City (7/1) No reference
What little humor Sahara has is forced, and of the goofy, 'buddy-film' shenanigans variety.
By
Chuck Wilson
of L.A. Weekly (4/4) No reference
This perfectly distracting, ultimately unsatisfying film feels like a James Bond flick in which t...
By
Prairie Miller
of Long Island Press (3/5) No reference
A pretty offensive comedy about Africans who range from primitive to demonic that, sorry, is just...
By
Michael Elliott
of Movie Parables (7/1) No reference
If you like your adventures to be of the mindless variety, you may find something to appreciate i...
By
Kyle Smith
of New York Post (3/5) No reference
The one-liners, mostly bland, are used so liberally that they water down the action.
Reviews of Sahara
By
M.E. Russell
of Oregonian (3/5) No reference
McConaughey and Zahn's casual interplay makes the film.
By
Mary F. Pols
of Contra Costa Times (7/1) Not Reachable
As action-adventures go, Sahara may not be as close to the tradition of Indiana Jones as it wants...
By
Rene Rodriguez
of Miami Herald (7/1) Not Reachable
Feels like a carbon copy of the real thing.
By
James Berardinelli
of ReelViews (7/1) Not Reachable
...takes the action/adventure story to new heights of preposterousness.
By
Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone
of TheMovieChicks.com (7/1) Not Reachable
For a popcorn movie, it's a bit stale.
Movie Distributors
Paramount Pictures Production Companies
KanZaman
Massarde Productions
Baldwin Entertainment Group
Bristol Bay Productions
j.k. livin Productions Movie Studios
Paramount Pictures
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