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...film??s main failing is that, despite being a star vehicle for Bullock, it is her performance that weighs it down. She just seems tired of playing the funny, cute action heroine and it shows as she unenthusiastically utters, “Hey, careful, my guns are in that Fendi.” Considering that Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood has been her most challenging film, one wonders why the pretty comedienne hasn’t knocked off Julia Roberts in a jealous rage...
What’s truly disturbing, though, is that all three of the film??s antiheroes take a vengeful joy in the grisliness they inflict. It’s enough to make even the fans of the comic books queasy; violence rendered in artful black-and-white line drawings is very different from live-action carnage...
Mostly, Sahara fails because it just can’t decide what movie it wants to be. Part historical adventure, part sand-swept romance, when the film??s not playing like Outbreak déjà vu, it expends way too much energy channeling eco-apocalypse thrills à la The Day After Tomorrow...
Looming maliciously as the film??s well-groomed villain, Lambert Wilson delivers each line with silky-smooth narcissism, securing his position as the coolest, suavest French badass in Hollywood cinema...
...hero. Dwight is chasing crooked cop Jackie Boy, who is played with gleeful and gravelly-voiced creepiness by Benicio del Toro. Watching the two foils interact—Dwight as the shining protector of women, Jackie-boy as the sinister beater of barmaids—is another of the film??s great interplays. In a wry sequence guest-directed by Quentin Tarantino, the half-decapitated Jackie Boy taunts a hallucinating Dwight...