The filmmakers move between their two lesser plots with a motley assortment of plot holes, contrivances and fantastically preposterous leaps which grow more and more incredulous as the film progresses.
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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
Good-natured enough to entertain here and there, but that otherwise loses its way long before the characters complete their implausible quest.
04/08/05
Then again, women still swoon with lust whenever McConaughey steps in front of the camera, no matter how rancid is the project he deems fit to appear in right now.
04/08/05
As barren as the actual Sahara, but without the grand lure, this movie is plain old stoo-pid...
04/08/05
For a popcorn movie, it's a bit stale.
04/08/05
Not quite as fun as "National Treasure," but far better than Dennis Quaid’s doomed "Flight of the Phoenix."
04/08/05
I enjoyed this movie on its own dumb level, which must mean (I am forced to conclude) in my own dumb way.
04/08/05
Top CriticIs it cheesy fun or just cheesy? Just cheesy.
04/08/05
With a running time of a few minutes over two hours, Sahara sputters along as slowly as a trek across the desert.
04/08/05
[M]ight actually be worthy of licking the boots of Raiders of the Lost Ark...
04/08/05
Sahara falls into quicksand and quickly disappears into the abyss that can only be described as Movie Hell. Only one word can describe this thing, baby: Craptacular.
04/08/05
Sahara is pretty to look at but lacks the adrenaline charge of the movies it's so obviously trying to emulate.
04/08/05
Matthew McConaughey ... makes a bid to become the next swashbuckling matinee idol. Not that there's much swash to buckle in the middle of the world's largest desert.
04/08/05
For all its flaws, Sahara still works as a C+ discount-matinee time-waster.
04/08/05
'National Treasure Lite'... a movie that would probably be perfect in-flight entertainment, or maybe even a decent video rental on a night when you're in an undemanding mood.
04/08/05
Sahara is an Indiana Jones rip-off so dull that it gives me newfound respect for Cannon Films' 1985 version of King Solomon's Mines.
04/08/05
Sahara is one of those rare film that is sunk completely as a fault of the cast.... It just goes to show that sometimes Hollywood gets its own formula wrong.
04/08/05
No one seems to know what they're doing, or worse, much care.
04/07/05
This is what action movie should be... Dirk Pitt is a hero who would make James Bond buy him a drink and make XXX wet his pants.
04/07/05
A little Indiana Jones, a little James Bond, a little Tom Clancy -- it all adds up to an action-adventure flick with little to distinguish it.
04/07/05
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