Some movies I never go out to see, mostly because I know in advance that there's a 98% probability it’ll suck, it’ll suck to high heaven. It’ll stink with Hollywood “crapality” and make me weep for the twelve dollar debit from my bank account.
I think Sahara falls into that 2% where I’m wrong. I just caught this flick on TMN (Canada’s version of HBO) and that was a sweet ride. It’s still Hollywood crap, but crap worth your time.
The story is, of course, simple. Two ex-Navy buddies turned treasure hunters are on the hunt for a lost Civil War-era ship that somehow ended up in West Africa. At the same time, a doctor imbued with hotness and camouflaged by eyeglasses is on a hunt of her own, a plague reaching the tipping point. The unlikely two meet through contacts and end up on the same boat. Dirk and Al are supposed to drop Eva and her teammate, but of course a businessman and a warlord can’t have the gorgeous doctor snooping around. Dirk and Al must save the day. In the end, everyone gets what they wanted. The end.
I told you it was simple enough. And it’s also crap. How many super-hot doctors with nerd-making glasses can there be out there saving the world? Right from the start I was wondering how long before we got the heaving bosom in a tank top and the bikini. Add a lot of explosions, near misses, jokes and buddy movie elements and you have a stale and tired Hollywood formula.
But — yes, here comes the but — it works, for me anyway. All the clichéd elements were there and I think that’s why I liked it, in a guilty pleasure kind of way — the two childhood friends who never let up on each other, the sidekick who knows he’s the sidekick, the girl who knows she’s the damsel in distress. But buddy flicks work when the fun is in. They never stop making cracks at everything and each other. And Penelope Cruz in a camisole — oh, how I loved that cami…
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