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Sahara [2005] | ![Sahara [2005]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41JVDQ6H77L._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Director: Breck Eisner
Actors: Matthew Mcconaughey, Penelope Cruz, Steve Zahn
Studio: Paramount Home Entertainment
Category: DVD
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Rating:  56 reviews
Sales Rank: 5164
Format: Anamorphic, Dubbed, Pal
Languages: English (Subtitled), Italian (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language), Italian (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over
Region: 2
Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 119 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.2 x 0.6
EAN: 5014437872036
ASIN: B000A3DB7G
Theatrical Release Date: 2005
Release Date: August 22, 2005
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Condition: 100% BRAND NEW AND FACTORY SEALED, SO IN PRISTINE CONDITION! - UK DISPATCH
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Amazon.co.uk Review
It took more than 25 years for another Clive Cussler novel to come to the screen after the financial and critical disaster of Raise the Titanic. Based on Cussler's oddly landlocked adventure, Sahara finds the author's hero, Dirk Pitt (Matthew McConaughey)--a sort of all-American, high seas variation of James Bond--in Africa looking for a Confederate ironclad ship that impossibly might have ended up there. Soon he and his faithful sidekick Al Giordino (Steve Zahn) are lost in another adventure, discovering a deadly contaminate being tracked by a beautiful doctor (Penelope Cruz). The results are checkered: there's no one outstanding sequence, but the action is enjoyably varied, while the thrills are mild yet not bombastic or gratuitous. The cast are all adept in their roles, yet the only one who sparkles is the scene-stealing Zahn, cast against type; McConaughey, who also produced, knows he might be starting a franchise character and plays it safe. He's never as dangerous as Cussler's hero is on the page (except in his introduction), and in fact, the whole movie plays towards comedy, infused by a soundtrack of 70s FM radio monsters. Cussler fanatics may not like this lighter fare, especially with the archeological portion (a Cussler strong point) not fully embraced, but with a very, very likable cast and colorful settings, Sahara is a kindler, gentler action film that has all the elements in place for a better, more memorable franchise if anyone cares to attempt it. --Doug Thomas, Amazon.com
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Watchable but forgettable July 25, 2008
Trevor Willsmer (London, England)
The producers of Sahara might have done well to have considered how well the previous attempt to bring one of Clive Cussler's Dirk Pitt novels to the screen went before pouring a hundred or so million dollars into it even before Cussler launched an ill-fated lawsuit against the end product. While it's not as dull as Raise the Titanic, it didn't exactly set the box-office on fire let alone kickstart a new Indiana Jones-style franchise about the maritime treasure hunter that the studio so desperately wanted. It's not that hard to figure out why. Matthew "Naked Bongos" McConaughey and Penelope Cruz make for an unsurprisingly bland pair of leads, not helped by a plodding script that, after a terrific prologue in the American Civil War, pretty much traipses along with only a single boat chase to hold your attention until an action-packed last half hour finally wakes the film up. The outlandish premise - McConaughey's hunting a Civil War ironclad ship in the Sahara desert while Cruz is tracking the source of a new disease that threatens to poison the continent and beyond - works rather better than it should and the film's other MaGuffin, a solar-powered toxic waste disposal plant, must have had the Bond people kicking themselves that they didn't think of it first, but not well enough to make up for the lack of any chemical reactions among the cast. Perfectly watchable but also perfectly forgettable stuff.
It's worth noting that Paramounts region 2 PAL DVD drops all of the extras from the US disc (two commen taries, featurettes and deleted scenes) and contains only the film itself.
 Expensive Stupid Tripe (and I am being kind) June 6, 2008
Wowbagger the Infinite (Somerset, UK)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
And I thought "The Covenant" was bad... This is yet another of those hugely annoying American films where every character that is not American is either (a) expendable, or (b) stupid AND expendable. Every single American in this movie is savvy, smart, sharp witted and has huge grasp of current affairs and World knowledge in general - which of course the rest of us on the planet know is about as far from the truth as you can possibly get.
This film is deafeningly loud, has enormous explosions, a plot line developed by lobotomised marmosets and more designer stubble than you can shake a stick at. It is a dreadful waste of an actor of the skill of William H Macy, but everyone else is at or about their correct level.
If you have a choice between watching this film or having root canal work done on your teeth, think hard. You have a choice. At least with root canal work you get pain killers.
This film is DREADFUL.
Great Movie May 13, 2008
Brendan O. Clarke (Edinburgh)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I caught Sahara [2005] on TV recently and it is a great movie if you are mentally challenged or suffering from a tremendous hang-over. Matthew McConaughey is an all-American James Bond-Indiana Jones type adventurer in this mindless "movie", and Cruz plays a Doctor/Scientist.
Sahara is a poor movie; it's the type of movie that exists in that strange world where critics almost universally pan it, yet it still manages to pack 'em in at the box office.
Despite adding nothing new to an already crowded genre, it's already earned its money back in the States and topped the charts. It seems the people love it and it has been tailor-made to appeal to the teenage girl crowd.
Any action? Surely Cruz and McConaughey don't discuss science the entire time? There's a boat chase with numerous explosions, overturned trucks, endless rounds of ammunition, and a camel race straight from the classic movie 'Ishtar'. Nothing, however, could prepare us for the concluding scene where a military helicopter is taken out by a rusty 140-year-old cannon. I also liked what they called a "Panama," where a yacht is packed with explosives and let loose to, uh, explode. Me like fire. I've stopped speaking in full sentences now cos this movie has that brain-dead quality to it.
 Very poor April 1, 2008
Rafal Gruszczynski (Warsaw Poland)
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
The action sequences are good. The plot is terribly poor. The acting is embarassing. Only if you really (REALLY!) have nothing else to do.
(PS: don't use Indiana Jones on the cover - this isn't even any close to it)
A Classic Example December 22, 2007
RMPilkington (United Kingdom)
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
When a producer pitches a film to a studio to get it financed he has about 30 seconds to enagage the executive or his project is dead in the water (you can see it being done properly by Richard E Grant's character in a totally brilliant film called "The Player"). Twenty minutes into this film and none of the characters have been developed and no one in the audience has a clue what's going on - worst still, no one in the audience cares either. Despite its multi-million dollar budgets and even after turning down 99% of the scripts it receives, the studios are desperate for the one thing that neither love nor money can seemingly buy - a good script - a story with real characters that engage the audience from the opening scene. By this assessment Sahara fails horribly on all counts...
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