Sahara

(2005)

★ 5.9 IMDb · 1,700 votes

Genres: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Mystery

Year: 2005

Runtime: 124 мин

Country: Germany, Morocco

Director: Breck Eisner

Cast: Мэттью Макконахи, Пенелопа Крус, Стив Зан, Ленни Джеймс, Ламбер Вильсон, Уильям Мэйси, Рэйн Уилсон, Глинн Тёрмен, Jude Akuwudike, Клинт Дайер

Plot

Seasoned adventurer and treasure hunter Dirk Pitt, a former Navy SEAL, sets out for the African desert with his wisecracking buddy Al in search of a confederate ironclad battleship rumored to have vanished long ago, the main draw being the treasure supposedly hidden within the lost vessel. When the daring duo come across Dr. Eva Rojas, a beautiful scientist who is juggling an escape from a warlord and a mission to stop the spread of a powerful plague, their desert expedition begins to heat up.

Retired US admiral Sandecker's foundation finances various projects worldwide, including high tech marine salvage by brilliant Dirk Pitt's US Navy Seal veterans team including buddy Al Giordino, which dreams of finding the mysteriously missing Confederate gold aboard the ironclad battleship 'Ship of Death'. Pitts bumps into evidence for his theory it crossed the Atlantic up the river Niger, where the admiral has an environmental project. Alas, it's a West African dictatorship where the ruthless president suppresses the desert people, in league with billionaire French energy industrialist Yves Massarde. Saving reckless WHO epidemics researcher Dr. Eva Rojas, he learns the secret: tribal slaves run a waste plant whose toxic output threatens, through an underground fluvial system, to pollute the ocean and hence cause a global killer epidemic.