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.
Despite the vast beauty of location settings in Morocco and Spain, the vast lack of chemistry between the two stars is appalling.
– Rex Reed,
New York Observer,
14 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:
It drove me crazy. It made National Treasure look like a documentary.
– Richard Roeper,
Ebert & Roeper,
11 Apr 2005
rotten:
McConaughey's no Harrison Ford. And no one cracks the whip of originality.
– Desson Thomson,
Washington Post,
8 Apr 2005
rotten:
A mediocrity wrapped inside a banality, toasted in a nice, fresh cliche.