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33 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 60EmpireDan JolinEmpireDan JolinAbout as good as a big, stupid American action movie can be without ever being anything better than a big, stupid American action movie.
- 58Entertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumEntertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumThis 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.
- 50VarietyRobert KoehlerVarietyRobert KoehlerSaddled with more industry/celebrity baggage than a high-class safari voyage, Sahara is a rousing and only occasionally ridiculous adventure yarn.
- 50ReelViewsJames BerardinelliReelViewsJames BerardinelliTakes the action/adventure story to new heights of preposterousness. In a way, that's not a bad thing, since it allows a certain level of guilty enjoyment.
- 50Charlotte ObserverLawrence ToppmanCharlotte ObserverLawrence ToppmanThe movie, first preposterously entertaining and then just preposterous, makes James Bond films look as logical as Euclidean geometry.
- 50Miami HeraldRene RodriguezMiami HeraldRene RodriguezIt's not that Sahara is offensively bad: It's just that the picture, loud and busy as it is, never really finds its own identity.
- 40The Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttThe Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttAny 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.
- 40The A.V. ClubKeith PhippsThe A.V. ClubKeith PhippsMcConaughey is usually a welcome presence, but here, he looks like making the movie was getting in the way of his exciting African adventure.
- 40L.A. WeeklyChuck WilsonL.A. WeeklyChuck WilsonThis perfectly distracting, ultimately unsatisfying film feels like a James Bond flick in which the stand-in got the lead.
- 10Dallas ObserverRobert WilonskyDallas ObserverRobert WilonskyA stunning piece of work--stunningly inept, stunningly incoherent, stunningly awful in every single way imaginable.