If you like movies that are big, dumb fun, they don't come much bigger -- and they certainly don't come any dumber (or funner!) -- than Sahara.
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04/07/05
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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
Top CriticFor people thirsty for the kind of sub-Indiana Jones adventure that used to pop up on your local UHF stations all weekend long, Sahara fills a real niche.
04/07/05
As dry and lifeless as its sun-burnt locale.
04/07/05
The plot flies in too many directions, and the derring-do stunts are ho-hum.
04/07/05
Spectacularly silly and perversely entertaining.
04/07/05
Top CriticIt may not be Raiders of the Lost Ark, but Sahara, the screen adaptation of Clive Cussler's sprawling African adventure yarn, is a movie that keeps half a brain in its head while adopting the amused, cocky smirk of the Indiana Jones romps.
04/07/05
Top CriticThe secret ingredient that makes this handsome thriller so enjoyable is the chemistry between Alpha-male McConaughey and zany Zahn.
04/07/05
The film is passably entertaining, in no small part because of Steve Zahn.
04/07/05
Top CriticThe characters are too thin, the violence too careless, the suspension of disbelief required too strenuous, the treatment of non-whites too stereotyped.
04/07/05
Was Matthew McConaughey invited to the congressional hearings on steroids?
04/07/05
Brainless...but it's also breathless. If the content is negligible and even puerile, the packaging is choice.
04/07/05
Mightily agreeable foolishness ... one of the few cases where the phrase, "the book was better," actually doesn't apply.
04/07/05
Travels down been-there-done-that territory, afraid to take chances and unaware of its own tedious mediocrity.
04/07/05
How seriously can you take a movie in which Penelope Cruz, wearing a bucket of eye make-up, plays a World Health Organization physician who investigates plagues?
04/07/05
Although the movie isn't great, it is kinda fun.
04/07/05
When Sahara stops being about Dirk and Al's misadventures and starts being about viruses and mass murder, it loses its way.
04/07/05
There's no disguising the fact that Sahara has all the heft of marshmallow.
04/07/05
Top CriticThis is a Mystery Science Theater 3000 special.
04/07/05
Top CriticFeels as plodding and fruitless as trekking the length of a desert on a pogo stick with a busted spring.
04/07/05
Top CriticWhat it is is a big summer action movie that would have been hot stuff about 30 years ago but looks tired and worn today despite a perky, attractive cast that refuses to wilt in the desert sun.
04/07/05
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