Action movie Sahara lacks punch
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With his sunglasses on and a Conga drum in his lap, Matthew McConaughey asked me in a recent interview if his latest movie, Sahara, was worth seeing. I paused. "It's a good ride," was all I could muster up. I was honest. The low grade Indiana Jones-type action movie, starring McConaughey, Penelope Cruz and Steve Zahn, is a good ride, much like a mediocre amusement park ferris wheel. However, it's not much more than that. It's not the rollercoaster we would expect out of Indiana Jones and his fellow high-caliber heroes. Of course, it still does hit a few of the essentials for a movie of this sort, and I would recommend this movie for anyone who doesn't want to be stimulated beyond seeing McConaughey flash his pearly whites.

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