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Sahara (2005)
Runtime: 2 hrs 3 mins
Genre: Action/Adventure
Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Penélope Cruz, Steve Zahn, Delroy Lindo, William H. Macy
Screenwriter: Thomas Dean Donnelly, Delroy Oppenheimer, John C. Richards, James V. Hart
Producer: Howard L. Baldwin, Mace Neufeld, Stephanie Austin, Karen Baldwin
Composer: Clint Mansell
DVD Info
Release:
Dec 10, 2007
Blu-ray Disc Features:
- Blue BD Case
- Widescreen - 1.85
Audio:
- Dolby Digital Surround Sound DTS 5.1 - English
- Dolby Digital Surround Sound 5.1 - English, French, Spanish
- Subtitles - English, French, Spanish - Optional
- Closed Captioned - English - Optional
Additional Release Material:
- Trailers - 1. Theatrical Trailer
- Commentaries - 1. Breck Eisner - Director
- 2. Breck Eisner - Director, Matthew McConaughey - Star/Producer
- Featurettes - 1. "Visualizing SAHARA"
- 2. "Across the Sands of SAHARA"
- 3. "Cast and Crew Rap Film"
- 4. "Deleted Scenes with Optional Commentary by Director Breck Eisner and Matthew McConaughey"
Interactive Features:
- "Camel Chase"
- "Animatics"
Text and Photo Galleries:
- Storyboard Comparisons
Reviews
A really, really dumb film, but it's lots and lots of fun and entirely lacking in malice.
In short, Sahara is a hugely enjoyable, old fashioned adventure movie of the sort that they really don't make anymore. It's worth seeing just for the chemistry between its three leads.
This is a big, lively romp, filmed in a lushly expansive epic style even though it's basically low-rent James Bond.
Highly entertaining romp from the pen of airport pulp king Clive Cussler.
A pretty offensive comedy about Africans who range from primitive to demonic that, sorry, is just not funny.
Vapid, lengthy, and mostly lifeless -- kind of like the desert it's named for.
Sahara rather resembles National Treasure, another film with a strained story line and deadening lack of visual richness.
For "Sahara," the problem is that we have the Indiana Jones movies to compare it to, and I'm afraid there's no comparison. It's never more than a likable poseur.
The plotting is too complex for a generally stupid picture, but that didn’t stop me from getting sucked in by director Breck Eisner’s nicely paced action sequences.
Like the African desert that lends the film its name, this so-called adventure is coarse, dry, and overheated.
Sahara's biggest problem is twofold: the film's subtle ideological bent is alarming, and, in the lead, McConaughey is only just barely tolerable.
With this strong of a cast this film should have been much better.
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