Sahara (2005)

Regisseur:

Breck Eisner

Drehbuchautoren (WGA):

Clive Cussler (novel)
Thomas Dean Donnelly (screenplay) ...

Premierendatum:

8. April 2005 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Abenteuer | Komödie

Werbezeile:

Dirk Pitt. Adventure has a new name.

Plot:

Master explorer Dirk Pitt goes on the adventure of a lifetime of seeking out a lost Civil War battleship known as the "Ship of Death" in the deserts of West Africa while helping a UN doctor being hounded by a ruthless dictator.

Plot Keywords:

Boat Chase | Warlord | Contamination | Wristwatch | Lighthouse

Filmpreise:

2 wins & 4 nominations

Nutzerkommentare:

A little boring and meandering but a very classy presentation

Besetzung

Jude Akuwidike	...	Imam (as Jude Akuwudike)
Mark Aspinall	...	Lawyer
Rakie Ayola	...	Mrs. Nwokolo
Christopher Bello	...	Train Driver
Nicholas Beveney	...	Gunboat 1 Officer
Empotoe Bosage	...	Pick Up Truck Guard
Robert Cavanah	...	Captain Tombs
Penélope Cruz	...	Eva Rojas
Clint Dyer	...	Oshodi
Matthew Flynn	...	1st Lieutenant, Ironclad
Paulin Fodouop	...	Modibo (as Paulin F. Fodouop)
Ouahbou Houcine	...	Tuareg Village Boy 1
Emmanuel Ighodaro	...	Kazim's Officer Asselar
Lennie James	...	General Zateb Kazim
Maurice Lee	...	Zakara

Alternativ:

Sahara (Spain)
Sahara - Abenteuer in der Wüste (Deutschland)

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for action violence.

Länge:

124 Min

Produktionsland:

UK | Spain | Deutschland | USA

Sprache:

Arabisch | Französisch | Englisch

Farbe:

Farbe

Seitenverhältnis:

2.35 : 1

Tonverfahren:

DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS

Altersfreigabe:

Netherlands:12 (DVD rating) | Germany:16 (DVD rating) | Taiwan:PG-12 | Malaysia:U | Iceland:12 | South Korea:12 | Argentina:Atp | Australia:M | Brazil:12 | Canada:13+ (Quebec) | Canada:PG (Ontario) | Czech Republic:12 | Finland:K-11 | Germany:12 | Ireland:12A | Norway:15 | Peru:PT | Philippines:PG-13 | Singapore:PG | USA:PG-13 | Hong Kong:IIA | UK:12 (video rating) (2005) | UK:12A (original rating)

Drehorte:

Delta del Ebro, Tarragona, Cataluña, Spain

Firma:

Bristol Bay Productions

Dies und das:

The fact that Al Giordino had some of the Admiral's cigars was an inside joke from the novels; he always seemed to have some no matter how carefully Admiral Sandecker kept them under lock and key.

Pannen:

Abfolgefehler: The guard on the train has sweat on the front of his shirt all the way down the front of the chest. In the next shot it is gone.

Dialogzitate:

[first lines]
Sailor Who Drops Gold: Sorry, captain.
Pilot, Ironclad: It's all right son, just keep moving. That's the future in your hands.

Bezüge zu anderen Titeln:

Ausschnittsweise enthalten in Across the Sands of Sahara (2005) (V)

Soundtrack:

Djaa

A little boring and meandering but a very classy presentation

STAR RATING: ***** The Works **** Just Misses the Mark *** That Little Bit In Between ** Lagging Behind * The Pits

Adventurer Dirk Pitt (Matthew McCoughnehey) travels to Nigeria, Africa to retrieve an ancient battleship. However, he stumbles upon a travesty. The people are dying or terribly diseased because of polluted water from the wells. There is, of course, a more insidious reason for this: the typically corrupt African government and a plot that spreads all the way to the States. Pitt, his sidekick and Eva (Penelope Cruz) a beautiful doctor determined to stop the spread of the disease, must battle to save the day.

Sahara is a slick, glossy effort that has a pleasingly polished feel all the way. It has a neat soundtrack and some fairly exciting action sequences. But, fun as they are, there's not nearly enough of them and the disappointing lack of action leaves the film to get a little boring along with the wavey plot that meanders about a bit for two hours.

McCoughnehey isn't my favourite leading man. A bit too smug and coy for my liking. His sidekick is little more than your typical wise-cracking Hollywood fall guy and similarly Cruz can do little more than be the usual steely, determined love interest you see in films like this. As for the rest of the supporting cast, William H Macy is pleasing but Delroy Lindo gets hardly any screen-time in his role.

A film with some serious flaws, but still a fairly enjoyable piece of Sunday afternoon BBC 1 entertainment. ***