Sahara/YMMV
< Sahara
- Anvilicious: For the biggest part, the movie does a good job conveying the Green Aesop by simply showing the situation through the eyes of the characters. But they still felt the need to hammer it home with the words of the local African dictator.
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Kazim: "Don't worry. It's Africa. Nobody cares about Africa." |
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- Complete Monster: General Kazim who poisons his own citizens, contaminating the water in a mean and careless way due too much money in the payoffs from corrupt industrial corporations for him to care. Worse yet he makes sure that his well armed henchmen will kill everyone who gets too close to the financial foundation of his dictatorship. His worst act is when he coldly executes Carl with no second tought..
- Crowning Moment of Awesome: Dirk after MacGyvering a means of transportation out of a crashed plane, complete with awesome soundtrack and desert scenery.
- Crowning Moment of Funny:
- Al unloading a seemingly endless arsenal of weapons from all over himself while the trio is being forced at gunpoint to exit the car. "...What?"
- "NO PANAMA!"
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Dirk: "That was close." |
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- Executive Meddling: Sahara is arguably one of the best of the Dirk Pitt novels. What happened?!
- Special Effects Failure: During the boat chase scene, the boat's windshield is shot out. Multiple times.
- Strangled by the Red String: Dirk's and Eva's chemistry is debatable.
- What the Hell, Casting Agency?: Al Giordino is described in the books as a swarthy Italian with curly black hair and a bushy mustache. The role went to pale midwesterner Steve Zahn.
- Word of God states in one of the DVD extras that the filmmakers decided to put more emphasis on the comedy relief aspects of the character because there isn't an actor alive who fit close enough to Giordino's description in the books and that this decision had the support of the original book's author.