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FILM DETAILS | | Certificate 12A |  | Cast Matthew McConaughey Penelope Cruz Delroy Lindo William H Macy Steve Zahn Jude Akuwidike Mark Aspinall Rakie Ayola |  | Directors Breck Eisner |  | Screenwriters Joshua Oppenheimer John C Richards James V Hart Thomas Dean Donnelly |  | Running Time 124 minutes |
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Sahara Hollywood actioner with loads of raiding, riding and things exploding.

Plot Explorer Dirk Pitt (McConaughey) is obsessed with finding a mysterious US Civil War ship, which he believes wound up somewhere in Africa. Upon finding a rare gold coin in Lagos, he knows he's close; but how does it tie in with a "plague" epidemic threatening thousands of North Africans? Verdict About as good as a big, stupid American action movie can be without ever being anything better than a big, stupid American action movie. Like The Mummy, then, but with far less CG.
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