Sahara (DVD)

Dirk Pitt, adventurer and former Marine, has long held an ambition to find a battleship that disappeared in the Sahara, a relic of the Civil War. He sets off to find it with best friend Al Giordino in tow. But the path of a true adventurer is never straightforward. On the way, he meets a UN doctor, Eva Rojas, who believes that an epidemic killing thousands of West Africans may have a human explanation. Certainly, an African warlord seems intent on seeing them out of the country. Will Dr Rojas be able to prove the source of the epidemic? And will Pitt and Giordino find their battleship? Based on a book by Clive Cussler that I have never read, I didn't really ...

Adventure Has A New Destination Sahara, a rip-roaring action adventure in the style of Indiana Jones and the more recent National Treasure, is based on the characters from Clive Cussler’s best selling Dirk Pitt novels. In fact the legend “A Clive Cussler Dirk Pitt Adventure” appears in the opening credits. Dirk Pitt previously appeared in the dismal box office failure “Raise The Titanic” back in the 70’s and hasn’t been seen since, not surprising really as it was an awful film. In fact it was such an unmitigated disaster that producers and film companies were probably scared off doing another adaptation of a Cussler book, but in the synchronistic was ...

This was a strange film. I came to watch this knowing little about what kind of film it would turn out to be and overall I was pleasantly surprised. How to describe it? Well think Indiana Jones meets James Bond and you get a fairly good idea of what to expect. The film starts in 1865 during the American Civil War. The stakes for both sides had just got higher with the invention of the Ironclads, warships covered in iron plates making them the most powerful weapons of their time. One such Ironclad on the Confederate side the ‘Texas’, is under attack but then mysteriously disappears into the mist never to be seen again. Wind forward more than a ...