Sahara

PoP **1/2

This was an enjoyable and entertaining adventure movie and would be appreciated by anyone that had never read a Clive Cussler / Dirk Pitt book. My take on the Dirk and Al characters from the books are two serious aquatic scientists, with a mild sense of understated humor between them.

In the film, they joked and carried on like a couple of fraternity men on Spring break. I made a comparison to someone of the books' characters to the film's as the Lone Ranger and Tonto to Abbott and Costello.

If one wants to view a truly great adventure film set in the Sahara, view the original film Sahara, from 1943, with Bogart.