...an action adventure film, complete with implausible situations, and perfectly timed rescues and escapes. Who cares? It’s still fun, exciting and thoroughly entertaining
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Sahara (2005)
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Reviews Counted:168
Fresh:64
Rotten:104
Average Rating:5.1/10
Consensus: A mindless adventure flick with a preposterous plot.
Theatrical Release:Apr 8, 2005 Wide
Box Office: $68,642,452
Synopsis: 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 traveling around... [More]
Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Penélope Cruz, Steve Zahn, Delroy Lindo
Director: Breck Eisner
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Reviews for Sahara
..a rollicking, wild adventure in which a very buff Matthew McConaughey, and his able sidekick, Steve Zahn, have more fun than any movie pair since Mel Gibson and Danny Glover
04/12/05
...will leave a parched sensation in one’s dry throat...a recycled buddy-buddy vehicle that’s about as welcoming as hugging a cactus tree
04/12/05
While it doesn't rewrite the genre, it finds a way to deliver with style and humor everything adventure fans want.
04/12/05
Sahara is many things, but it is not a movie. It is the skull-splitting cacophony of 21 producers and four screenwriters (that we know about, anyway) standing in the same room shouting into their cell phones.
04/12/05
Otherwise dismissive reviews of Sahara have been forgiving it on the grounds that it’s entertaining. Allow me to counter that opinion: No, it isn’t.
04/12/05
It ain't art, and it's dumber than I'd like, but I don't imagine you were expecting Kieslowski.
04/12/05
Pitt seems to get by entirely on dumb ideas and reckless luck. In the end, he's an action hero in name only.
04/12/05
It drove me crazy. It made National Treasure look like a documentary.
04/11/05
Top CriticIt would have worked better with a funnier and more believable script.
04/11/05
...the overriding lesson here is that if we don't go looking to Matthew McConaughey for gravitas, we'll probably have a good time.
04/11/05
The adventures are non-stop but reality gets buried in the sand.
04/11/05
[A]s delightful a bit of... hokum as we've seen in some time. You don't take it seriously for a minute... [Y]ou get a big bag of popcorn, sit back, and enjoy.
04/11/05
Has enough humor and adventure that I’m almost willing to overlook the preposterous plot
04/11/05
Someone had the brilliant idea to treat Sahara as a Hope and Crosby “Road” picture pasted onto a James Bond/Indiana Jones plot.
04/10/05
Mindless, but fun and entertaining. It’s sort of James Bondish without the ridiculous special effects. I enjoyed it, mainly because of McConaughey and Zahn.
04/10/05
The mindless Sahara is smart enough to keep the action and wisecracks at a fevered clip.
04/10/05
Arid as the sand-covered dunes, “Sahara” is a made-for-TV flick disguised as the return of Indiana Jones.
04/10/05
While I'd be happy to see another cinematic adventure for Dirk Pitt, I don't ever want to see another Breck Eisner film in my life.
04/10/05
Like a lightweight novel suitable for beach reading, Sahara is mildly entertaining, but I can't recommend it.
04/10/05
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