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Sahara Review

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Critics scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 3.0
    41

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    Metascore®
    Mixed or average reviews
    based on a weighted average of all
    critic review scores.

  • 40

    out of 100

    The Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt

    Any movie starring Penelope Cruz or William H. Macy can't be all bad. And Sahara, which stars both Penelope Cruz and William H. Macy, proves the point: It isn't all bad.

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  • 50

    out of 100

    USA Today Claudia Puig

    The film clocks in at under two hours, but the last 20 minutes feel like 40.

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  • 50

    out of 100

    Los Angeles Times Kevin Crust

    Breck Eisner, son of former Disney mogul Michael and something of a protg of Steven Spielberg, for whom he directed an episode of the miniseries "Taken," guides Sahara's big action set pieces with assurance, but would have been better served by a tighter script.

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  • 50

    out of 100

    Variety Robert Koehler

    Saddled with more industry/celebrity baggage than a high-class safari voyage, Sahara is a rousing and only occasionally ridiculous adventure yarn.

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  • 50

    out of 100

    Chicago Tribune Robert K. Elder

    Action films can't be this consistently absurd, can't paint their heroes into such dangerous corners, from which only cocktails of luck and divine intervention can save them, over and over. It's a bad-faith bargain with the audience and bad storytelling.

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  • 58

    out of 100

    Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum

    This insanely busy, exceedingly long, and sometimes endearingly preposterous rendering has simply gotten the directions reversed in its insistence on sticking only to where men-who-make-adventure-flicks have gone before.

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  • 70

    out of 100

    The New York Times Stephen Holden

    As Sahara careens between swashbuckling silliness and semi-serious comment, it builds up reserves of energy and good will that pay off when it bursts into its final sprint, a rootin'-tootin' 21-gun finale as satisfying as it is preposterous.

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  • 75

    out of 100

    Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

    I enjoyed this movie on its own dumb level.

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For Families provided by Common Sense Media

Iffy for 12+

Some exciting action, but overall not satisfying.

What Parents Need to Know

Parents need to know that this movie has non-stop "action" violence, which means that our intrepid heroes get shot at a lot but never get hit while their own shooting is almost unfailingly on target. Despite the fact that it's based on a book written in the 1990s and includes some positive black characters and a female doctor, the movie has an unpleasantly retro approach to women and minorities, approaching racism in its casual attitude toward killing Africans.

  • Families can talk about groundwater contamination issues, and about the Navy SEALs.

The good stuff
  • message true0

    Messages: Dated portrayals of women and minorities.

What to watch for
  • violence false3

    Violence: Comic book-style peril and action violence.

  • sex false0

    Sex: Not an issue

  • language false0

    Language: Mild language.

  • consumerism false0

    Consumerism: Not an issue

  • drugsalcoholtobacco false3

    Drinking, drugs and smoking: Smoking, social drinking.

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