Sahara
Trash. Feels like an amalgam of several other movies cobbled together in the faint hope we won’t notice the joins. They even rip off Thunderheart, one of my all time favourites. Arghhhhhh!!!! Matthew McConaughey has zero screen chemistry with Penelope Cruz and somehow gets lost in the scenery. (Not what I expected from the man who blazed on the screen in Lone Star and Frailty and he wasn’t even the lead in those two movies!)
Hokey plot without the compensation of stunning visuals or gasp inducing action set pieces.
Steve Zahn rocks as the side kick yet again and saved this from being a wasted two hours! Great African sounds but I could have done with much much more.
As usual the bad guys and annoying characters were mainly played by Brits. Sigh. Can’t someone give them jobs as the good guys or the interesting side kick or, perhaps, shock horror, an interesting well drawn human being? Ah, but then we’d need a decent script writer, and a producer who can see beyond national stereotypes, for that.
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