Sahara (DVD) Reviews

Sahara is an action & adventure film released in year 2005. Film is an adoption of the novel "Sahara" by Clive Cussler. Film was directed by Breck Eisner. Star Cast: Matthew McConaughey portrays Lt. Dark Pitt, an ex-Navy SEAL working for NUMA. William H. Macy plays a role of Admiral James Sandecker, senior ...  Read the complete review

A certain someone I know rated this 'the best movie ever' for about 8 months a couple of years back, until the next best movie ever came along... In truth this is a pretty below-par action adventure movie. The plot, which I can't be bothered to go into, is silly. That, in itself, is not necessarily a problem with this kind of film - I ...  Read the complete review

Sahara is clearly one of those films that studios occasionally tentatively float out in the hope of creating a money-spinning franchise with lots of lovely sequels. Since it's based on the Dirk Pitt series of novels from Clive Cussler, if Sahara succeeded, there was already a wealth of instantly available storylines available to rush into ...  Read the complete review

Above average but only just. Penny Cruz is woefully underused in this movie. What's the point of casting a hot lady like her and then really playing down her sexuality. Matt M isn't really action enough to be a Navy Seal and neither is his mate. His friend is such a bad shot, he's supposed to be a SEAL? Navy Seals everywhere should be boycotting ...  Read the complete review

First off, I will say that if you're for a bit of fun and adventure and not after a truly believable or solid plot, then this is the film for you. Two hours or so of action with some cheesy acting, the odd occasion of raw comedy and a dash of romance is enough to keep you going. I, for one, enjoyed it, because that is all I was expecting, and that ...  Read the complete review

Sahara is the 2005 film directed by Breck Eisner Synopsis Marine salvage experts Dirk and Al travel to Mali in search of a lost civil war Ironclad ship, storing a mysterious cargo. After stopping the assassination of Doctor Eva Rojas from the world health organization, Dirk ends up taking the doctors to Mali in aid of their ...  Read the complete review

This 2005 release is a highly entertaining action/adventure spree that attempts to weave together several seemingly random threads. Dirk Pitt is National Underwater Marine Agency's current golden boy. He heads Admiral James Sandecker's crew as they seek out and recover artifacts of all sorts that have been lost in the Seas of the ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review

Clive Cussler writes adventure novels. Between 1973 and 2006 he has written 19 books in the Dirk Pitt series. Dirk Pitt is hybrid of James Bond, Jack Ryan and Indiana Jones. In the books Pitt works as a marine engineer and he is also a government spy. This film is from the 1992 book Sahara written by Cussler, film came out in ...  Read the complete review

The leading characters of this film embark on an adventure in search of a ship's treasure. Their journey takes them through Africa in search of what the local people refer to as the Ship of Death: a lost Civil War battleship that may contain the valuable cargo. The screenplay of Sahara tells two connected stories: Eva Rojas is searching ...  Read the complete review

Hero in the film is Dirk Pitt, he works as a Marine Engineer, salvaging lost treasures from sunken ships. Dirk is a bit of an explorer. He is a former Navy Seal so knows how to defend himself in tight places. When he hears of a ship full of gold stranded in the African Sahara. Dirk takes a team with him to find the gold. In ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review

In 1865 the "Texas", a Confederate iron clad ship escapes into the Atlantic, never to be seen or heard from again… Dirk Pitt (Matthew McConaughey) is an ex-Navy SEAL working for the National Underwater and Marine Agency (NUMA), headed by Admiral James Sandecker (William H. Macy). They specialise in underwater archaeology and ...  Read the complete review

The screenplay is based on a novel from Clive Cussler's Dirk Pitt series. It tells two parallel stories: Eva Rojas is searching for a cure to a mysterious disease while a group of adventurers are on a quest for lost treasure. Explorer Dirk Pitt and his partner are a part of the group called NUMA (National Underwater and Marine Agency). This is a ...  Read the complete review