History Film / Sahara2005

''Sahara'' is a 2005 action-adventure film directed by Breck Eisner, loosely adapted from [[Creator/{{CliveCussler}} Clive Cussler's]] 1992 novel of the same name.

%%* HotScientist: Eva Rojas.

** Shortly before finding [[Film/CrimsonTide red algae in the river]], the heroes are seen listening to [[Music/LynyrdSkynyrd "Sweet Home Alabama"]] on the radio.

Not to be confused with [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sahara_(1983_film) the 1983 film of the same name]]. Creator/LambertWilson coincidentally starred in both. Also not to be confused with [[Creator/HumphreyBogart Bogey's]] ''Film/Sahara1943'' ''or'' [[Creator/JamesBelushi Belushi's]] 1995 remake.

** From what I remember, he never got the chance, other than when they were being chased by him in the helicopter. Otherwise, they were lost in the desert while they were being brought to him after being captured, and otherwise, it was his soldiers that were doing the firing and attempted killing.

'''Al:''' I don't wanna rain on your crazy parade, buddy, but I don't think we can fix this thing.\\
''[cue SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome]''

''Sahara'' is a 2005 action-adventure film directed by Breck Eisner, loosely adapted from Creator/{{Clive Cussler}}'s 1992 novel of the same name.

''Sahara'' is a 2005 action-adventure film directed by Breck Eisner, loosely adapted from Creator/CliveCussler's 1992 novel of the same name.

* GovernmentAgencyOfFiction: NUMA is specifically noted as being a private organization in the movie, despite being a government one in the books. However, the ending implies that the government wants to buy their services and make them official, so its likely this movie was intended to be an origin story. Interestingly, Clive Cussler, the man who created the fictional agency, also [[{{Defictionalization}} made NUMA non-fictional]]. He now has over sixty shipwreck recoveries under his belt.

Not to be confused with [[Film/{{Sahara 1983}} the 1983 film of the same name]]. Creator/LambertWilson coincidentally starred in both. Also not to be confused with [[Creator/HumphreyBogart Bogey's]] ''Film/Sahara1943'' ''or'' [[Creator/JamesBelushi Belushi's]] 1995 remake.

* AdventurerArchaeologist: The National Underwater and Marine Agency appears to be a sort of HeroesForHire outfit for examples of this trope. Dirk is the straightest example in the cast, while Al is more of an Adventurer Archaeologist's BeleagueredAssistant, although he does have plenty of badass moments of his own.

'''Dirk:(Chuckles)''' ... Deal!

''Sahara'' is a 2005 action-adventure film directed by Breck Eisner, adapted from Creator/CliveCussler's 1992 novel of the same name.

* {{Workaholic}}: The movie tries to establish Eva Rojas as such, although that might be an InformedFlaw.

* GreenAesop: Though the carrot that brings Dirk to Africa is lost Confederate gold, the stick that keeps him there despite being shot at constantly is [[spoiler:Massarde's secret toxic waste disposal site; a solar-powered furnace meant to safely destroy extremely hazardous chemicals of indefinite origin, a service which is making him very rich. Problem is, it's not able to destroy all of the waste, requiring the remainder to be haphazardly stored in an underground storage facility. A storage facility that's leaking this material into the water table -- resulting in what Rojas diagnoses as a plague killing countless Malians. That's not the end of it, either; Sandecker's simulations show that if the contamination reaches the Atlantic, it will effectively ''cause an Atlantic Chenobyl'']].

Not to be confused with [[Film/{{Sahara 1983}} the 1983 film of the same name]], even though Lambert Wilson coincidentally starred in both. Also not to be confused with [[Creator/HumphreyBogart Bogey's]] ''Film/Sahara1943'' ''or'' [[Creator/JamesBelushi Belushi's]] 1995 remake.

* SacrificialLion: Eva's partner Frank Hopper. Upon being captured along with his team by Kazim and his troops, Frank witnesses his team being slaughtered by Kazim's troops while Eva evades capture by hiding inside a well. When Kazim interrogates Frank of Eva's whereabouts, Frank refuses to answer and [[FaceDeathWithDignity instead goads Kazim to kill him anyways]]. Kazim instantly obliges to it by shooting Frank in the chest, which left Eva very upset and motivated to aid heroes into stopping Kazim.

Creator/MatthewMcConaughey stars as AdventureArchaeologist Dirk Pitt. While engaged in a deep-sea salvage off the coast of Nigeria with his partner Al Giordino (Creator/SteveZahn), Dirk discovers evidence that a lost Civil War ironclad may have managed to cross the Atlantic and wind up in Western Africa. Simultaneously, he saves the life of a WHO doctor (Creator/PenelopeCruz), who is investigating the source of a strange disease. Together they travel up the Niger River, searching for the missing ship and the toxins causing the disease, while evading the forces of General Kazim, who rules over the region and may have something to do with the plague.

'''Dirk:''' ... Deal!

-->Dirk: [[spoiler:Rudi's got chemistry here. It says if that leak don't shut down ASAP it’s gonna reach the ocean. And when it does, that will be ground zero for the Atlantic’s version of Chernobyl.]]