Synopsis
Seasoned adventurer and treasure hunter Dirk Pitt, a former Navy SEAL, sets out for the African desert with his wisecracking buddy Al in search of a confederate ironclad battleship rumored to have vanished long ago, the main draw being the treasure supposedly hidden within the lost vessel. When the daring duo come across Dr. Eva Rojas, a beautiful scientist who is juggling an escape from a warlord and a mission to stop the spread of a powerful plague, their desert expedition begins to heat up.
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Cast
- Matthew McConaugheyDirk Pitt
- Penélope CruzDr. Eva Rojas
- Steve ZahnAl Giordino
- Lennie JamesGeneral Zateb Kazim
- Lambert WilsonYves Massarde
- William H. MacyAdmiral Jim Sandecker
- Rainn WilsonRudi Gunn
- Glynn TurmanDr. Frank Hopper
- Jude AkuwudikeImam
- Clint DyerOshodi
Recommendations
- 60
Empire
About as good as a big, stupid American action movie can be without ever being anything better than a big, stupid American action movie. - 58
Entertainment Weekly
This insanely busy, exceedingly long, and sometimes endearingly preposterous rendering has simply gotten the directions reversed in its insistence on sticking only to where men-who-make-adventure-flicks have gone before. - 50
Variety
Saddled with more industry/celebrity baggage than a high-class safari voyage, Sahara is a rousing and only occasionally ridiculous adventure yarn. - 50
ReelViews
Takes the action/adventure story to new heights of preposterousness. In a way, that's not a bad thing, since it allows a certain level of guilty enjoyment. - 50
Charlotte Observer
The movie, first preposterously entertaining and then just preposterous, makes James Bond films look as logical as Euclidean geometry. - 50
Miami Herald
It's not that Sahara is offensively bad: It's just that the picture, loud and busy as it is, never really finds its own identity. - 40
The Hollywood Reporter
Any movie starring Penelope Cruz or William H. Macy can't be all bad. And Sahara, which stars both Penelope Cruz and William H. Macy, proves the point: It isn't all bad. - 40
The A.V. Club
McConaughey is usually a welcome presence, but here, he looks like making the movie was getting in the way of his exciting African adventure.
