Sahara Sucks

I had a chance to see the movie Sahara. Don’t waste your time. It had a great idea (it was based on a Clive Cussler novel), but the acting was way too cutesy, and the action was way over the top.

Please understand, I like fictional movies. I thought National Treasure (similar film) was cool. I was also ready for some things to be a little weird walking in to that movie. The things that happened in the Sahara movie were not as far fetched as National Treasure. The action scenes were just dopey. It was like watching an episode of the A-Team where Hannibal and Face spray a bunch of bullets and kill no one. Then a bad guy truck flies up in the air when Murdock shoots it with a shotgun. Ugh!

There’s one point in Sahara when they’re speeding along in a speed boat in a river as a big jeep with a big mounted gun (50 caliber maybe?) is shooting at them. A few bullets hit the boat here and there, but none stop the boat engine or hit any of the three guys on the boat. Why would it, they ducked about 3 inches lower than if they were standing straight up. Anyway, the hero (Matthew McConehey or however you spell it) tosses a flare gun to this other guy, who is a geeky scientist. He yells, "Shoot the Jeep with the flare gun". Suddenly, the geeky scientist becomes a flare gun marksman and shoots the flare right into the jeep and blows it up! Whatever!!!!