The title for me basically writes its own review. When I think of the Sahara desert I think dry, boring, predictable and death by dehydration. This film is exactly those things the humour is dry and unfunny the plot is boring and predictable and I wished instead I was dying of dehydration than sitting in the cinema which doesn't happen often.
The whole film was just pure action movie cheese and predictability that got so tedious towards the end. I cannot think of a film I have seen (besides Dodgeball) where from the start I could predict what was going to happen at the end and how exactly it was going to happen. The basic plot outline is that a dashing (poorly acted) explorer Dirk Pitt (Matthew Mconaughey) embarks on the greatest treasure hunt of his life looking for an American Civil War battleship that had found its way and been lost in the Sahara desert in West Africa (how the hell did an ironclad ship get to Africa) Pitt and his (shamefully unfunny) sidekick are assigned to help Dr Eva Rojos (Penelope Cruz) from the World Health Organization who is working in the same area and believes the same ship Pitt is hunting for could be the cause of mysterious deaths in the same area. I wonder if that you can guess what happens in the end? The action hero cheese really reeks throughout this film from the unfunny lines from Steve Zahn the sidekick to Mconaughey and the all too predictable final scenes between Cruz and Mconaughey. In a final scene described as "epic" inside the American war ship they manage to find all the old pieces to an American civil war cannon that is 150 years old and get it to fire through the windscreen of a Helicopter circling them from outside. That was the final straw for me I think.
I didn't read any reviews of this film before going to see this film which I don't do very often but I was going at the last minute so had no time, I really wish I hadn't wasted my time and money. If you want a decent action film in this frame of mind watch the Indiana Jones series it has everything this film lacks.
The whole film was just pure action movie cheese and predictability that got so tedious towards the end. I cannot think of a film I have seen (besides Dodgeball) where from the start I could predict what was going to happen at the end and how exactly it was going to happen. The basic plot outline is that a dashing (poorly acted) explorer Dirk Pitt (Matthew Mconaughey) embarks on the greatest treasure hunt of his life looking for an American Civil War battleship that had found its way and been lost in the Sahara desert in West Africa (how the hell did an ironclad ship get to Africa) Pitt and his (shamefully unfunny) sidekick are assigned to help Dr Eva Rojos (Penelope Cruz) from the World Health Organization who is working in the same area and believes the same ship Pitt is hunting for could be the cause of mysterious deaths in the same area. I wonder if that you can guess what happens in the end? The action hero cheese really reeks throughout this film from the unfunny lines from Steve Zahn the sidekick to Mconaughey and the all too predictable final scenes between Cruz and Mconaughey. In a final scene described as "epic" inside the American war ship they manage to find all the old pieces to an American civil war cannon that is 150 years old and get it to fire through the windscreen of a Helicopter circling them from outside. That was the final straw for me I think.
I didn't read any reviews of this film before going to see this film which I don't do very often but I was going at the last minute so had no time, I really wish I hadn't wasted my time and money. If you want a decent action film in this frame of mind watch the Indiana Jones series it has everything this film lacks.