2005 · action · adventure · comedy
Sahara
Directed by Breck Eisner2h 4m2005
Seasoned adventurer and treasure hunter Dirk Pitt, a former Navy SEAL, sets out for the African desert with his wisecracking buddy Al in search of a confederate ironclad battleship rumored to have vanished long ago, the main draw being the treasure supposedly hidden within the lost vessel. When the daring duo come across Dr. Eva Rojas, a beautiful scientist who is juggling an escape from a warlord and a mission to stop the spread of a powerful plague, their desert expedition begins to heat up.
Our read: Sahara (2005) reads as a sombre, breathless, inventive action · adventure · comedy entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, measured action / adventure, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- sombre
- kinetic
- intense
- twisty
- epic-stakes
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