2005 Directed by Breck Eisner
Scouring the ocean depths for treasure-laden shipwrecks is business as usual for a thrill-seeking underwater adventurer and his wisecracking buddy. But when these two cross paths with a beautiful doctor, they find themselves on the ultimate treasure hunt.
Matthew McConaughey Penélope Cruz Steve Zahn William H. Macy Lennie James Lambert Wilson Glynn Turman Rainn Wilson Clint Dyer Delroy Lindo Robert Cavanah Jude Akuwudike Mark Aspinall Rakie Ayola Christopher Bello Patrick Malahide Nicholas Beveney Empotoe Bosage Matthew Flynn Paulin Fodouop Ouahbou Houcine Emmanuel Ighodaro Maurice Lee Daniel Njo Lobé Francis Magee Thierno Amath Mbaye Femi Ogunbanjo Eddie Osei Nathan Osgood Show All…
Stephanie Austin Mace Neufeld Matthew McConaughey Howard Baldwin Karen Elise Baldwin William J. Immerman Gus Gustawes Vicki Dee Rock
Paramount Bristol Bay Productions Baldwin Entertainment Group Desertlands Entertainment Mace Neufeld Productions Kanzaman J.K. Livin Productions Moguletta Sahara Productions Babelsberg Film
Sahara - Le avventure di Dirk Pitt di Clive Cussler
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“I am so tired of being shot at!”
The best Uncharted movie we never got.
Y’all just haters
Matthew McConaughey could have been the next Indiana Jones had this sorely underrated action masterpiece not have bombed so hard. He is just as witty and cool as Harrison Ford with the suaveness of 007. Undoubtedly in my mind one of the most misunderstood action film in recent memory. Ton of fun with exciting action and a humongous dose of comedy making this an unforgettable 2-hour experience.
"I am so tired of being shot at!"
Direction: 10/10
Writing: 10/10
Cast and characters: 9/10
Action: 10/10
Cinematography: 10/10
Editing: 9/10
Visual Effects: 9/10
Music: 8/10
Rewatchability: 10/10
Overall: 10/10
95/100
Feels like an adventure movie from a million years ago... starting off as a search for a mysterious lost confederate ship filled with gold somewhere in Africa before turning into a Plot involving the WHO and stopping a crazy Bond Villain from contaminating the oceans with toxic sludge waste. Theres even a Bond villain’s evil lair in the desert complete with solar panels and jaws like heavy character as well as Thunderball-esque bond music horns lol. Reminds me of the action adventure movies we would get before the oversaturation of big comic book blockbusters happened—This doofy shit is way more my speed than that stuff and I would have watched every sequel to this if they existed.
Plus Steve Zahn and Rainn Wilson so like wtf is this Indiana Jones/James Bond/live action Uncharted-esque action adventure movie?
Dumb, but fun.
up to you whether or not the White People Save Africa plot is cancelled out by McConaughey/Zahn teamup (it is though). otherwise not spectacular or anything but as sturdy as any mid-tier Bond, which isn't as easy as it sounds.
Sahara is a stupid adventure movie composed almost entirely of tropes and ridiculous plot coincidences. Like most treasure hunting movies, it’s pretty orientalist, and also sexist and aggressively pro-American.
It’s also a ton of fun. The action set pieces, while absurd, are well-crafted and nice to look at. The musical score, somehow both generic and notably above-average, elevates the entire movie by a wide margin. The main characters (played by an exceptional trio — Matthew McConaughey, Penelope Cruz, and Steve Zahn) are all inexplicably experts at everything, and never make any mistakes, but their chemistry is undeniable and very fun to watch. Definitely one of the better non-Indiana Jones treasure hunts.
A really, really dumb film, but it's lots and lots of fun. It has so many elements of the typical formula: handsome lead, sexy heroine, amusing sidekick, villains with no depth who are just there for being a villain and action sequences which are not that great but are enough to make you entertained.
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Despite being an adaption of Clive Cussler’s best-selling novel Sahara (1992) and having a monstrous $160 million budget, Breck Eisner‘s action-adventure comedy Sahara (2005) is utterly unremarkable. The story is vapid and forgettable. The characters rely entirely on the fame and natural charisma of their cast members because none of the ten, yes I said ten, screenwriters could be bothered to develop any of them, even the larger-than-life action hero Dirk Pitts that this film was clearly hoping to start a film series about. The action is over-the-top but in a not good goofy way. The cinematography, editing, and other technical aspects are bland.
Honestly, it’s incredibly surprising to me that Sahara (2005) is remembered beyond the leaked financials that showed a significant amount of illegal foreign bribery and the 10-year legal battle with author Clive Cussler over alleged contract breaches, blackmail, and sabotage, because those things are significantly more interesting than the film.
I've decided to spend my day off doing some African adventuring.
I've just been looking through some of the reviews of Sahara and bloody hell! No-one liked this film, did they? Crapped on from all angles and a disappointment at the box office, it's no wonder this didn't become the franchise that they had hoped for. Well I'm disappointed if no-one else is.
I thought Sahara was absolutely tremendous fun. Does it have a single solitary original thought in its head? Nope. Is it completely bone-headed and daft? Yep. Do I care? Not a jot. This really ticked most of the boxes when it came to an old fashioned action adventure as far as I'm concerned, with a good cast…
McConaughey had to go through his Burt Reynolds phase from roughly the years 2003 to 2011, successfully cocooning his abilities as an actor. You can tell he had a hell of a fun time just living life those years. But from a cocoon comes a transformation and watching McConaughey transform his career is one of the more fascinating and redemptive arcs of an actor's career. You have to have the downs to admire the ups that much more. As for Sahara, which pains me to even bring up, there is just no momentum to it whatsoever. So dull it hurts.
Sahara is pretty generic, has typical characters, and an underwhelming story, but it’s fun to watch. The action sequences are well done, the score is decent, and if the film hadn’t bombed, I’m sure this would have kickstarted a franchise.
"Sahara" should work. The Breck Eisner-directed adventure film boasts Matthew McConaughey exhibiting classic leading man chops, a story communicating life-and-death stakes, and a cinematic dynamic trumpeting a James Bond-meets-Indiana Jones sensibility. The ingredients for the next great adventure film are all there, but they result in something strangely uninteresting. The parts may shine, but the sum is lackluster.
Starring McConaughey as Clive Cussler's adventurer, Dirk Pitt, "Sahara" follows Pitt and comrades on on odyssey involving Civil War-era shipwrecks, African plagues, and general derring-do. The plot combines an audacious hodge-podge of elements and easily retains the treasure-hunting, techno-adventuresome spirit of Cussler's novels.
Unfortunately, that story is executed with such a vanilla cinematic energy that what should enchant and excite falls flat.…
