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| Director
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Breck Eisner |
| Starring
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Matthew McConaughey, Penélope
Cruz, Steve Zahn |
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| The plot of
Sahara |
As
he searches the Sahara desert for an elusive toxin
that's killing off marine life, adventurer Dirk
Pitt (McConaughey) is sidetracked by a U.N. scientist
(Cruz) targeted by assassins. Teaming up, the
pair learn that their respective causes both lead
to a West African tyrant whose water disposal
plant might be one of the biggest threats to the
planet's ecosystem. |
| Sahara Movie
Review |
Reviewed by
PETER KEOUGH :
To judge from the five-minute opening sequence, Sahara
might have been made by someone with intelligence and
talent. A superior History Channel–type episode
about a Confederate ironclad running a Union blockade
fades into an engraving of the vessel lying among the
items in the living quarters of that 21st-century Indiana
Jones, Dirk Pitt (Matthew McConaughey). The newspaper
clippings, snapshots, and assorted gewgaws fill in the
back story and set the stage for the adventure to come.
Not just a splendid bit of exposition, but a sly look
at cinematic semiotics and layers of signification .
. more..
Review By Todd
Gilchrist :
Movie stars may just be the most blessed people
on the earth. They are, after all, folks possessed of
so much natural charm and charisma that they don’t
even need talent, even if they sometimes occasionally
do happen to possess it.. More..
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