Searching for a treasure on the River Niger, Dirk Pitt thwarts the attempted assassination of a beautiful W.H.O. scientist investigating a disease that is killing thousands of North Africans. The suspected cause of the raging epidemic is vast, unprecedented pollution that threatens to extinguish all life in the world's seas. Racing to save the world from environmental catastrophe, Pitt and his team run a gauntlet between a billionaire French industrialist and a bloodthirsty West African tyrant. In the scorching desert, Pitt uncovers the truth behind his life-long quest - the fate of a Civil War ironclad. Now, amidst the blazing, shifting sands of the Sahara, Dirk Pitt will make a desperate stand – in a battle the world cannot afford to lose! Master explorer and former US Navy Seal Dirk Pitt and his wisecracking buddy Al Giordino goes on the adventure of a lifetime of seeking out a lost Civil War ironclad battleship known as the "Ship of Death" that protects a secret cargo is lost somewhere in the deserts of West Africa. But while the two cross paths with a beautiful and brilliant U.N. scientist Dr. Eva Rojas who is being hounded by a ruthless dictator. She believes that the hidden treasure may be connected to a larger problem that threatens the world around them. Hunting for a ship that no one else thinks exists, Dirk, Al, and Eva must rely on their wits and their daring heroics to outsmart dangerous warlords, survive the threatening terrain, and get to the bottom of both mysteries. Lets not mince words, Sahara is among the worst films ever created. It's characters consist of three walking clichés who through a series of terrible one liners and odd coincidences set off to Sahara to uncover a civil war era battleship which somehow made it's way to the Sahara desert (The film's explanation for this is ridiculous). The three walking clichés, spouting one-liners and stupid dialogue all the way, travel to the Sahara whereupon through a series of hilarious and ridiculous coincidences the plot is revealed. Examples of these coincidences include when the characters find a vital clue when a football accidentally rolls into the important area and when the intrepid idiots stumble onto the eponymous battleship in the middle of the desert. Yes, out of the entire Sahara desert, the largest desert in the world, the heroes just happen to find the battleship, purely by accident. This is not suspending disbelief, it is expelling disbelief and refusing to acknowledge it's existence at all. The villain (another cliché) is immediately obvious as he has an upper class British accent (In most Hollywood films, the person with a posh British accent is the villain, any characters with a working class or cockney British accent are mere lackeys but still evil). The plot runs it's dragging, laughable course until finally we discover the ridiculous and vomit-inducing truth. The villain of the piece is polluting the oceans of the world for some reason! *Gasp* and must be stopped. The idea that this is comes anywhere close to the quality of Indiana Jones is absolute rubbish, the acting is in parts dire and the characters as mentioned before are all uninteresting clichés. The plot is ridiculous and poorly pieced together and the action sequences merely drag on. This is the worst film I have ever seen (and I've seen Plan 9 from outer space). 1. Lighten up America, and grow a sense of imagination again. This was a decent action adventure flick with humor and bits of drama. I was in a simple word, fun. My only complaint was the open titles reminded me too much of Gone in 60 Seconds. Cruz is a hottie, Zahn is funny, and McConaughey is the token hero. Was it a bit formulaic? Yeah, but so what, everything is. And when it isn't it becomes that way when everyone else starts to do that…ie Matrix.<br/><br/>If you liked National Treasure, you should like this. The story is a bit more realistic, even if some of the stunts aren't. Its still a fun movie. Please, go see it, and enjoy. The movie, first preposterously entertaining and then just preposterous, makes James Bond films look as logical as Euclidean geometry.
Wylogilv replied
369 weeks ago