It's not a terrible film. It's not particularly good, either, but it's certainly no disaster.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Oct 20, 2021

A shame this slick vehicle often stalls in a traffic jam of action-adventure cliches and unnecessary mucking about.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 18, 2020

A breezy summer action thriller that knows just what it is and has a ball being just that.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 5, 2019

Operating with a machine-tooled efficiency, Sahara seems blithely unaware of its utter predictability.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 24, 2019

To get a franchise going, you need your own style, and this movie hasn't an original thought on anything.

| Feb 3, 2018

Anyone with even the slightest awareness of global politics will cringe at dialogue like "No one cares about Africa" and the notion that good old fashioned American cunning will always triumph, no matter how dire the circumstances.

| Aug 24, 2017

For an adventure movie based on chase scenes in exotic locations "Sahara" never takes hold because director Breck Eisner and his team of screenwriters can't agree on what the story's about or what tone should resonate against it.

| Original Score: C- | Apr 18, 2009

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 7, 2008

The whole movie is a kick, actually.

| Original Score: B | Aug 18, 2007

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 14, 2007

A pretty offensive comedy about Africans who range from primitive to demonic that, sorry, is just not funny.

| May 11, 2007

Vapid, lengthy, and mostly lifeless -- kind of like the desert it's named for.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 2, 2006

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 1, 2006

Sahara rather resembles National Treasure, another film with a strained story line and deadening lack of visual richness.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 7, 2006

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Dec 6, 2005

For "Sahara," the problem is that we have the Indiana Jones movies to compare it to, and I'm afraid there's no comparison. It's never more than a likable poseur.

| Original Score: C+ | Nov 18, 2005

It tried to be National Treasure and it failed.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 11, 2005

The plotting is too complex for a generally stupid picture, but that didn't stop me from getting sucked in by director Breck Eisner's nicely paced action sequences.

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Oct 7, 2005

| Original Score: 7/10 | Aug 27, 2005

Like the African desert that lends the film its name, this so-called adventure is coarse, dry, and overheated.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jul 11, 2005