Tuesday, April 26, 2005
Review: Film: Sahara
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Originally first posted, by me, on Amazon.com on April 12, 2005
Sahara: Not as good as National Treasure
Why National Treasure? Both Sahara and National Treasure are somewhat similar movies about treasure hunters (or "preservers" or whatever Nicholas Cage was pretending to be) and both movies have segments of US history included into the plot (National Treasure - some of those debt-ridden Founding Fathers actually had access to all the gold that has been stolen/captured/gathered throughout history - and there is a scene set in early US history; Sahara - Rebel Ironclad carrying huge amounts of rebel gold, sails away from Richmond as it is attacked (the boat and the city)). Both treasure hunters track the gold (though the Sahara fellow is tracking the Ironclad filled with gold, didn't realize it had gold in it).
Matthew McConaughey plays Dirk Pitt from the Clive Cussler book series. Steve Zahn plays his sidekick and William H. Macy plays the ex-Admiral that runs NUMA (which Pitt and partner are members of). Penelope Cruz and unknown actor (Glynn Turman) are doctors with the World Health Organization. Pitt and partner search for the Texas (the Ironclad) in Africa after they finish a mission off the coast of Africa. Cruz and fellow doctor are following a plague out-break that seems to be coming out of Mali (nice, one of the few true republics in Africa is shown as in the grips of a evil dictatorship). Lambert Wilson plays the French bad-guy and Lennie James plays the Mali dictator.
The movie plot has huge holes in it, and some of the sequences seemed to just be there because they thought it would be fun to include (like that desert craft made out of the downed plane). The Sahara people stumble along and oops, they found some clues. The National Treasure people actually seemed to be tracking clues instead of stumbling over them (however implausible the clues might be).
Originally first posted, by me, on Amazon.com on April 12, 2005
Sahara: Not as good as National Treasure
Why National Treasure? Both Sahara and National Treasure are somewhat similar movies about treasure hunters (or "preservers" or whatever Nicholas Cage was pretending to be) and both movies have segments of US history included into the plot (National Treasure - some of those debt-ridden Founding Fathers actually had access to all the gold that has been stolen/captured/gathered throughout history - and there is a scene set in early US history; Sahara - Rebel Ironclad carrying huge amounts of rebel gold, sails away from Richmond as it is attacked (the boat and the city)). Both treasure hunters track the gold (though the Sahara fellow is tracking the Ironclad filled with gold, didn't realize it had gold in it).
Matthew McConaughey plays Dirk Pitt from the Clive Cussler book series. Steve Zahn plays his sidekick and William H. Macy plays the ex-Admiral that runs NUMA (which Pitt and partner are members of). Penelope Cruz and unknown actor (Glynn Turman) are doctors with the World Health Organization. Pitt and partner search for the Texas (the Ironclad) in Africa after they finish a mission off the coast of Africa. Cruz and fellow doctor are following a plague out-break that seems to be coming out of Mali (nice, one of the few true republics in Africa is shown as in the grips of a evil dictatorship). Lambert Wilson plays the French bad-guy and Lennie James plays the Mali dictator.
The movie plot has huge holes in it, and some of the sequences seemed to just be there because they thought it would be fun to include (like that desert craft made out of the downed plane). The Sahara people stumble along and oops, they found some clues. The National Treasure people actually seemed to be tracking clues instead of stumbling over them (however implausible the clues might be).
