Saturday, April 12, 2008

Sahara

I have seen this move three times, and will undoubtedly see it many more times. The story is nothing super spectacular, a group of people trying to find a long-lost civil war ironclad that according to legend made it's way across the Atlantic, and was lost in the Sahara desert where it had been dropped by sinking flood waters. There are plenty of places that my whole family was doubled over in laughter at a truly hilarious line. The gus find that upon arriving in africa, they are involved in much more than trying to find treasure- they are in the middle of a civil war, and at the same time, they meet a doctor who is trying to find the cause of a strange epidemic disease (it turns out to be a poisoning of the water because of a toxic waste dump)
This movie was family-friendly, I think my whole family saw it, or at least most of us. There are a couple 'words' in it, but with the tv guardian we didn't hear them. The violence is minimal, people get shot, but you don't see any more blood than say, star wars. It was really a great movie- one of my favorites. If you see it, or have already seen it, then don't go out and do a panama, it won't work.
If you have not seen this movie, and if you like any kind of action movie, you are really missing out!
No doubts in my mind- this one gets a full 10.

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