Dirk (Matthew McConaughey) and Al (Steve Zahn) have been friends since kindergarten, having also gone through college and the Navy together. The two now work for a former admiral travelling around the world and salvaging treasures from the sea with the National Underwater and Marine Agency (NUMA). In his spare time, Dirk is obsessed with the 150-year-old mystery of the Texas, an Ironclad battleship that reportedly disappeared from Richmond, Virginia during a Civil War battle and turned up in Africa. When a Confederate coin--allegedly one of only five minted--surfaces in Mali, Dirk and Al plan ... to travel there from Lagos, Nigeria on the admiral's yacht to investigate. Meanwhile, in Lagos, Dirk meets Eva (Penelope Cruz), a doctor for the World Health Organization (WHO) who believes that there is a plague building in Mali. Since the WHO is unable to find another way into the war-torn country, Dirk and Al give Eva and her colleague a lift up the river. Once in Mali, Dirk, Al, and Eva quickly find themselves embroiled in trouble as she pursues the source of the disease. Meanwhile, Dirk and Al search for the Texas. Based on a novel by Clive Cussler, SAHARA is a rollicking thrill ride through exotic locales, including everything from high-speed boat chases to helicopter pursuits to jeeps racing through the desert to camel rides. A warlord and a greedy French businessman prove to be formidable villains for the trio. McConaughey fits the bill as gentleman and adventurer Dirk, while Zahn holds his own as likeable sidekick Al. Cruz is feisty as independent Eva. Director Breck Eisner's theatrical feature film debut also features William H. Macy as the admiral.
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Great old fashioned adventure lacking character
There is a distinct lack of family action films that have been released in the past few years. However, ?Sahara? makes the second one in a few months, the other being ?National Treasure?. Comparisons of these films to the Indy trilogy is obvious as they all feature treasure hunters.
In Sahara?s case it is Dirk Pitt an ex-navy man who now works privately to discover lost treasure. He is aided by is best friend Al, played by the excellent Steve Zahn, and on this adventure, a doctor who is seeking a cure for a plague (Cruz).
The film is set almost entirely in Africa so has a different feel to many recent action films. The set pieces are great fun and the chemistry between the ...
Sahara Matthew McConaughey stars as intrepid treasure seeker Dirk Pitt, whose obsession with a long-lost Civil War battleship takes him across west Africa and into a plot involving warlords and water pollution. Action adventure based on the books of Clive Cussler
Despite a variety of attempts, from Richard Linklater's The Newton Boys (1998) to submarine adventure U-571 (2000), the mantle of action hero has always eluded Matthew McConaughey. Playing Dirk Pitt, a daredevil Indiana Jones-alike hero, Sahara is his most concerted effort yet to stake this claim. Given that there are 14 books in the series by Clive Cussler, this is a potential franchise if ever ...
Sahara is an adventure story that plays out as dryly predictable as the desert's endless dunes.
It's as if director Breck Eisner (son of Disney chief Michael) realized two-thirds through that more excitement was needed and then ladled it on thick. The buddy action-adventure morphs into a disaster flick, and, just for kicks, both good and bad guys detonate as many explosions as might have gone off during a week of the Iraq war.
Reason and logic are blown away as well. Characters traverse the Sahara on foot for days and never seem to need a drop of water as they pull off amazing feats. They also happen upon a working pay phone after stumbling through...
Despite a variety of attempts, from Richard Linklater's The Newton Boys (1998) to submarine adventure U-571 (2000), the mantle of action hero has always eluded Matthew McConaughey. Playing Dirk Pitt, a daredevil Indiana Jones-alike hero, Sahara is his most concerted effort yet to stake this claim. Given that there are 14 books in the series by Clive Cussler, this is a potential franchise if ever there was one.
To be fair, McConaughey is good value as the character. Pitt is a good old-fashioned swashbuckler who doesn't feel the need to end every scene with a cheeky pay-off line and McConaughey manages to keep his performance the right side of smug. Unfortunately ...
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