Sahara (1983)
5/10
Half family oriented and half not
29 May 2023
(1983) Sahara ACTION ADVENTURE

The movie is supposedly takes place during the year of 1924 which at the opening has a young lady, Dale (Brooke Sheilds) driving her car around a track, with sponsors looking onward. For the celebration of the new model car, is a party and when the father goes for a ride, he gets into an accident and dies. Before he dies, he tells his only child, Dale to compete into the race called the Sahara rally for the intention of impressing sponsors, except that only men are allowed to enter. So she disguises herself as a young man so that she can meet an old rival of her dad's, Von Glessing (Horst Buchholz). During the Sahara race each contestant are warned about a war that is brewing on the desert between two factions of the Chambra tribe and the Hamancha tribe. And it is not long before she begins to cross paths with the Chambra tribe with the senior uncle Ibrahim Rasoul (John Rhys-Davies) abducting Dale and her two crewman. And she begins to meet and eventually fall for his uncle's nephew sheik, Ahmed Al Jaffar (Lambert Wilson) while captured.

Although, there are no cringe worthy scenes, that upon watching this, the movie can't seem to know what it wants which at the opening show cases a group of gypsies mercilessly killed by the Chambra tribe for no reason. Then the next thing you know, they are then supposed to be the side, viewers are supposed to root for since it is the same tribe the Brooke Sheilds character falls in love with. This is one of those movies in which producers may have seen actor John Rhys-Davies in "Raiders of the Lost Ark", and loved his performance so much that they may have intervened during the making of this one, and try to become directors themselves by replicate the same tone as the Indiana Jones movies.
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