Scouring the ocean depths for treasure-laden shipwrecks is business as usual for a thrill-seeking underwater adventurer and his wisecracking buddy. But when these two cross paths with a beautiful doctor, they find themselves on the ultimate treasure hunt.
A mediocrity wrapped inside a banality, toasted in a nice, fresh cliche.
– Stephen Hunter,
Washington Post,
8 Apr 2005
rotten:
McConaughey's no Harrison Ford. And no one cracks the whip of originality.
– Desson Thomson,
Washington Post,
8 Apr 2005
rotten:
It drove me crazy. It made National Treasure look like a documentary.
– Richard Roeper,
Ebert & Roeper,
11 Apr 2005
rotten:
Sahara is many things, but it is not a movie. It is the skull-splitting cacophony of 21 producers and four screenwriters (that we know about, anyway) standing in the same room shouting into their cell phones.
– Jessica Winter,
Village Voice,
12 Apr 2005
rotten:
Despite the vast beauty of location settings in Morocco and Spain, the vast lack of chemistry between the two stars is appalling.