Hey folks, Harry here and this sounds like a fun adventure film. This is coming out in April - and having a Cast & Crew screening this early seems awfully odd, as usually those types of screenings take place no less than about a week before the film opens - so perhaps there were some cast & crew there, but in all likelihood this was a screening to see how the movie played with an audience and it sounds like it went fine. Here ya go...

Hi Harry  

I’ve just been to the Cast & Crew screening of Sahara in London, I’ve not seen a review of it posted yet so I thought I would have a go at writing one.  

I’ve not read the books that the film was based on so I went in with no expectations, except that I had the impression that it wanted to be the next Indiana Jones.  Perhaps I shouldn’t have gone in thinking this, as there was no way it could have measured up.  

Ok, so here’s a little about the plot.  We start off somewhere at the end of the American civil war.  An iron clad ship is transporting gold and is under attack.  Cut to modern day where we get a brief glimpse of Dirk Pitt’s office which features a model, drawings and info on the iron ship.   

Penelope Cruz works for the World Health Organisation and is stationed in Lagos.  She believes she’s found some kind of plague which is coming out of Mali.  She gets attacked whilst investigating this andDirk Pitt (Matthew McConaughey) comes to her rescue.  Dirk has a lead which takes him to Mali and he gives Penelope Cruz a lift.  They split up once in Mali and both get into various amounts of trouble with the President of Mali.  He’s been working with a business man (can’t remember actors name but it’s the Merovingian from the Matrix) to dispose of chemical waste in the desert.  Their plant is causing this “plague” and it happens to be located near to where the iron ship supposedly ended up.  I won’t divulge any more so not to spoil it.  

As blockbusters go, it’s not too bad.  It’s quite a nice no brainer.  Not too much to think about and plenty of explosions.  I’m not sure what rating it’ll get but they’re definitely aiming for something low as the blood was kept to an absolute minimum and I don’t remember any cursing.   

So to sum up, it’s no Indiana Jones but its a fairly decent family action/adventure film.  

Cheers  

L