Sahara (1995)
After the fall of Tobruk in June 1942, U.S. Army sergeant Joe Gunn leads his tank into the Sahara desert, in order to evade advancing Rommel's forces and reach Allied lines. Along the way he picks up few Allied soldiers, but soon they are running out of water. They find water at the ancient well, but the well is a goal of an entire German battalion. Despite the impossible odds, Sergeant Gunn decides to defend the well.
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Just perfect...
Captivating movie !
It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.
what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.
The men in this movie are threatened with death by dehydration. Hollywood is already algor mortis because of a dearth of ideas. They're remaking everything, in this case an emblematic movie of 1943 starring Humphrey Bogart. It was a nicely constructed flag waver full of comforting stereotypes.This remake is in color and has more impressive shots of the desert and the tank that is struggling across the dunes. Otherwise -- stay away.I don't know what happened to the industry, but I can take a guess. When the old studios were grinding away back in the 40s when the original appeared, they were run by men who had grown up with the business and could impose their personal values on the products. The Warner brothers cranked out tough message movies. If you wanted a "nice family" movie, Louie B. Mayer at MGM would be happy to accommodate you. A mogul could take a chance on a movie that might not earn its money back just because he LIKED the story.The entire economic structure has changed, and in the same way it's changed in publishing. Jack Warner is dead and so is Charles Scribner. The various production companies are now run by MBAs who think of nothing but the bottom line, preceded by a dollar sign.So we have unchallenging movies now based on cartoon characters, comic book heroes, and even video games like "Battleship." If there were an original idea in Hollywood now it would die of loneliness.The movie is an insult. Pfui.
Oh God, this is awful. This has just been inflicted yet again upon the unsuspecting British public by some obscure freeview channel trying to fill an empty slot between adverts. Please, please, please - make it stop. The acting is wooden and the stereotypes are appalling. The idea of a mouthy, overweight American NCO who joined the war fashionably late ordering around a multinational bunch of Allied privates led by a Commissioned officer is laughable enough, but the worst bit is the Sahara doesn't even look hot. It's more like a pleasant day trip to the beach. You could overlook the flaws of the original '43 version because of the quality of Bogart and the supporting cast, but not this mob. If you want to see a classic set in the western desert then go for "Ice Cold in Alex" instead of this rubbish. I hope Belushi remembered to drive on the left when he eventually made it back to El Alamein. Never again, please!
It's a normal B categorized movie with normal: Actors, historical environment, technical solutions. It processes a lead moral matter indeed, which is quite a big condition for bigger intonational operations. Problems comes, goes, but get solved. Thousands of people get killed, die for nothing by the orders given by their leaders, even though there is no other distinction than national differences between these "opponents" and afterwards the battle is completely goes for something different, which influences all that mess. It's really an easy purpose, but really hard to reach in there... in Sahara.despite of mark 6 which was given by this reductive IMDb rating system, this film deserves more than that of course, 'coz it's a good, pleasing dusk-evening movie, and really experiencable from the view of the value of human manners, and of story of war.
This was, IMO, one of Belushi's better portrayals. The subject is a part of history seldom touched upon by American movies (the American participation in the African theater against Rommel)and includes the Grant medium tank...a forgotten piece of equipment that shows just how unprepared America was to fight WW2.The movie is well acted. The scenery is excellent and the action flows nicely. The soldiers don't come across as cartoon superheroes or Rambo clones. The rift between the Italian and German forces is portrayed rather nicely too.The equipment is portrayed nicely and the tactics are sound.