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07/05/05
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:08-04-2005
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
Reviews for Sahara
Top CriticSahara's biggest problem is twofold: the film's subtle ideological bent is alarming, and, in the lead, McConaughey is only just barely tolerable.
06/11/05
With this strong of a cast this film should have been much better.
06/07/05
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05/13/05
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05/11/05
I can't figure out just what I didn't like about this film, but I know I didn't really enjoy it.
05/03/05
...like having a swimsuit full of sand.
05/02/05
...nobody could've expected the unbelievable sense of dullness that's permeating every aspect of the film.
04/30/05
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04/27/05
Just don’t go expecting complex moral and ethical quandaries and you’ll likely never think of Ishtar even once.
04/23/05
A hot-buttered popcorn flick that's deserted by its writers in the last act.
04/21/05
Sahara is a movie with Indiana Jones aspirations that plays more like a low-rent 007 clone.
04/21/05
In one spit-take-inducing moment, our heroes convert a wrecked prop plane into a desert sailboat, which they race across the sand to the strains of 'Magic Carpet Ride.'
04/18/05
Cussler's attempt to make his concept of an ironclad ship making its way from Richmond to the African desert is no more credible on film than on the written page.
04/17/05
jumps from plotline to plotline, stringing them together with a series of action setpieces that fulfill their obligations, but little more
04/17/05
Easy to look at and even easier to forget.
04/16/05
'...best described as Tom Clancy meets Indiana Jones.'
04/15/05
On the occasional moment when McConaughey actually works himself up to being heroic, Sahara positively soars.
04/15/05
Despite the vast beauty of location settings in Morocco and Spain, the vast lack of chemistry between the two stars is appalling.
04/14/05
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04/14/05
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