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* NUMASeries: The second movie adaptation from this series.
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* TemptingFate: Pointing out that armour plate will protect you [[spoiler:moments before being riddled by armor-piercing bullets.]]
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* ShoutOut: A newspaper clipping of NUMA [[RaiseTheTitanic raising the Titanic]] is showing during the opening track around Pitt's cabin (might be regarded as TemptingFate given the lack of success of that particular film).
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* CompleteMonster: General Kazim [[spoiler: who poisons his his own citizens, contaminatig the water in a mean and careless way due too much money in the payoffs from corrupt industrial corporations for him to care]]. Worse yet [[spoiler: he makes sure that his well armed henchmen will kill everyone who gets too close to the financial foundation of his dictatorship. His worst act is when he coldly executes Carl with no second tought.]].
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* CompleteMonster: General Kazim [[spoiler: who poisons his his own citizens, contaminatig the water in a mean and careless way due too much money in the payoffs from corrupt industrial corporations for him to care]]. Worse yet [[spoiler: he makes sure that his well armed henchmen will kill everyone who gets too close to the financial foundation of his dictatorship. His worst act is when he coldly executes Carl with no second tought.]].
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** Also the arabic mercenary.
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* ExactWords: Sandecker gets out of giving the IRS some of the gold by saying "We didn't find any money belonging to the ''United'' States".
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--> '''Rudy''', while holding the satellite phone: "I shot a guy with a flare gun."
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--> '''Rudy''', '''Rudi''', while holding the satellite phone: "I shot a guy with a flare gun."
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* TrailersAlwaysLie: One trailer had this lovely exchange while Dirk and Al are sailing across the desert, which is sadly not in the actual film...
--> '''Al''': "Hey! Where're we going?"
--> '''Dirk''': "I dunno, but we're making ''great'' time!"
--> '''Al''': "Hey! Where're we going?"
--> '''Dirk''': "I dunno, but we're making ''great'' time!"
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** "Uh, chief? I just shot a guy with a flare gun..."
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--> '''Dirk''': "That was close."
--> '''Al''': "Yeah it was."
--> '''Dirk''': "You ok?"
--> '''Al''': "Glad I'm driving."
--> '''Dirk''': "I am too. Rudy?"
--> '''Rudy''', while holding the satellite phone: "I shot a guy with a flare gun."
--> '''Dirk''': "Cool."
--> '''Sandecker''' on the other end of said phone: "What? A ''flare gun''?"
--> '''Al''': "Yeah it was."
--> '''Dirk''': "You ok?"
--> '''Al''': "Glad I'm driving."
--> '''Dirk''': "I am too. Rudy?"
--> '''Rudy''', while holding the satellite phone: "I shot a guy with a flare gun."
--> '''Dirk''': "Cool."
--> '''Sandecker''' on the other end of said phone: "What? A ''flare gun''?"
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** Er, yes and yes. The scene with the water is adapted from the book, the same thing happens though the location and delivery method is different. Also, the antidote is ''explicitly'' mentioned by the American embassy man as being distributed in the... Is it 'denouement'?
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* DiegeticSwitch: During the boat trip along the niger river the music goes from soundtrack, to the moored boat's radio. Later, after the heroes launch the boat again, the different tune on the radio shifts into soundtrack once more as the boat speeds away along the river.
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* WTHCastingAgency: Al Giordino is described in the books as [[NationalStereotypes a swarthy Italian with curly black hair and a bushy mustache]]. The role went to pale midwesterner Steve Zahn.
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* CompleteMonster: General Kazim [[spoiler: who poisons his his own citizens, contaminatig the water in a mean and careless way due too much money in the payoffs from corrupt industrial corporations for him to care]]. Worse yet [[spoiler: he makes sure that his well armed henchmen will kill everyone who gets too close to the financial foundation of his dictatorship. He also personally kills Dr. Rojas'fellow with no second tought.]].
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* CompleteMonster: General Kazim [[spoiler: who poisons his his own citizens, contaminatig the water in a mean and careless way due too much money in the payoffs from corrupt industrial corporations for him to care]]. Worse yet [[spoiler: he makes sure that his well armed henchmen will kill everyone who gets too close to the financial foundation of his dictatorship. He also personally kills Dr. Rojas'fellow His worst act is when he coldly executes Carl with no second tought.]].
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* KickTheDog: Kazim does this several times but is worst act [[spoiler: is when he personally kills Carl]].
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* CompleteMonster: General Kazim [[spoiler: who poisons his his own citizens, contaminatig the water in a mean and careless way due too much money in the payoffs from corrupt industrial corporations for him to care. care]]. Worse yet, yet [[spoiler: he makes sure that his well armed henchmen will kill everyone who gets too close to the financial foundation of his dictatorship. He also personally kills Dr. Rojas'fellow with no second tought.]].
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* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: Do they honestly serve [[spoiler:Massarde]] his own poisoned water in the end, without him noticing? Wow. [[NightmareFuel But wait a minute.]] Do they even have an antidote by the end of the movie? [[FridgeLogic It's never clearly established.]] Although they probably have.
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* {{Anvilicious}}: For the biggest part, the movie does a good job conveying the GreenAesop by simply showing the situation through the eyes of the characters. But they still felt the need to hammer it home with the words of the [[CompleteMonster local African dictator]].
--> '''Kazim''': "Don't worry. It's Africa. Nobody cares about Africa."
** As usual, YourMileageMayVary whether SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped.
* {{Anvilicious}}: For the biggest part, the movie does a good job conveying the GreenAesop by simply showing the situation through the eyes of the characters. But they still felt the need to hammer it home with the words of the [[CompleteMonster local African dictator]].
--> '''Kazim''': "Don't worry. It's Africa. Nobody cares about Africa."
** As usual, YourMileageMayVary whether SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped.
* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Not only is Penelope Cruz's character thrown around and beaten up multiple times, but she also falls through the floor of the SaharanShipwreck and is buried under a huge pile of sand. Her face gets a little dusty. Other than that, her hair is perfectly styled and she still looks like straight out of her L'Oreal commercials.
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* {{Crowning Moment of Funny}}: Al unloading a seemingly endless arsenal of weapons from all over himself while the trio is being forced at gunpoint to exit the car. "...What?"
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** Al unloading a seemingly endless arsenal of weapons from all over himself while the trio is being forced at gunpoint to exit the car. "...What?"
** Al unloading a seemingly endless arsenal of weapons from all over himself while the trio is being forced at gunpoint to exit the car. "...What?"
* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: Dirk after MacGyvering a means of transportation out of a crashed plane, complete with awesome soundtrack and desert scenery.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: [[spoiler:Yves Massarde]], doing business with an African dictator. Although he doesn't seem to be aware of all the consequences of his actions.
* DistressedDamsel: Eva clearly is a scientist, no ActionGirl. Dirk likes that.
--> '''Dirk''': "We need to find that bomb."
--> '''Al''': "No. I'll find the bomb. You get the girl."
--> '''Dirk''': "... Deal!"
* TheDragon: [[spoiler:Yves Massarde]] to Kazim.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: [[spoiler:Yves Massarde]], doing business with an African dictator. Although he doesn't seem to be aware of all the consequences of his actions.
* DistressedDamsel: Eva clearly is a scientist, no ActionGirl. Dirk likes that.
--> '''Dirk''': "We need to find that bomb."
--> '''Al''': "No. I'll find the bomb. You get the girl."
--> '''Dirk''': "... Deal!"
* TheDragon: [[spoiler:Yves Massarde]] to Kazim.
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* FunnyBackgroundEvent: During Dirk's payphone call to Sandecker after pulling off a truly magnificent IndyPloy and feat of MacGuyvering, MacGyvering, [[spoiler: an understandably irritated local resident shouts abuse at Al and gesticulates wildly at the improvised sandsailer built from the wreck of an aircraft, which is now sticking out of the side of his house.]]
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* HeterosexualLifePartners: Dirk and Al.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Dirk and Al.
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* NoodleIncident: When the head of the organization wants a U.S. government operative to help find his two people, the guy won't do it. So he mentions a specific date, something like "October 27, 1982." The operative says, "I thought you'd bring that up. If I help you, we're even."
** Panama is another incident we only have a little bit of information on...aside for the fact that they apparently blew up a boat.
*** The boys found out after the Panama incident that they had, in fact, been in Nicaragua.
* NoodleIncident: When the head of the organization wants a U.S. government operative to help find his two people, the guy won't do it. So he mentions a specific date, something like "October 27, 1982." The operative says, "I thought you'd bring that up. If I help you, we're even."
** Panama is another incident we only have a little bit of information on...aside for the fact that they apparently blew up a boat.
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* MacGyvering: Using parts of a crashed plane for desert-surfing.
--> '''Dirk''': "I'll bet you a hundred there's a tool kit in there."
--> '''Al''': "I don't wanna rain on your crazy parade, buddy, but I don't think we can fix this thing."
--> ''*cue CrowningMomentOfAwesome*''
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** Panama is another incident we only have a little bit of information on... aside for the fact that they apparently blew up aboat.
***boat [[spoiler:and that this plan didn't work]]. The boys found out after the Panama incident that they had, in fact, [[CrowningMomentOfFunny been in Nicaragua.Nicaragua]].
--> '''Dirk''': "I'll bet you a hundred there's a tool kit in there."
--> '''Al''': "I don't wanna rain on your crazy parade, buddy, but I don't think we can fix this thing."
--> ''*cue CrowningMomentOfAwesome*''
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* PlotDevice: The old coin.
* RunningGag: Al losing his hat.
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* RunningGag: Al losing his hat.
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* StrangledByTheRedString: Of course [[YourMileageMayVary YMMV]], but Dirk's and Eva's chemistry is debatable.
* [[WhyDontYouJustShootHim Why Don't Ya Just Shoot Him]]: Played straight with Kazim not killing Dirk and Al, tragically averted [[spoiler:with Carl]].
* {{Workaholic}}: The movie tries to establish Eva Rojas as such, although that might be an InformedFlaw.
* [[WhyDontYouJustShootHim Why Don't Ya Just Shoot Him]]: Played straight with Kazim not killing Dirk and Al, tragically averted [[spoiler:with Carl]].
* {{Workaholic}}: The movie tries to establish Eva Rojas as such, although that might be an InformedFlaw.
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->'''Al Giordino''': [[LetMeGetThisStraight Well]], we're in the [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin desert]], looking for the source of a [[GreenAesop river pollutant]], using as our map a cave drawing of a CivilWar gunship, which [[SaharanShipwreck is also in the desert]]. So I was [[LampshadeHanging just wondering]] when we're gonna have to sit down and re-evaluate our decision-making paradigm?
->'''Dirk Pitt''': I don't know - it seems to be working so far.
->'''Dirk Pitt''': I don't know - it seems to be working so far.
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{{Sahara}} is a 2005 action-adventure {{film}} starring [=Matthew McConaughey=] as AdventureArcheologist Dirk Pitt. While engaged in a deep-sea salvage off the coast of Nigeria, 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 (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.
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{{Sahara}} is a 2005 action-adventure {{film}} starring [=Matthew McConaughey=] as AdventureArcheologist AdventureArchaeologist Dirk Pitt. While engaged in a deep-sea salvage off the coast of Nigeria, Nigeria with his partner Al Giordino, 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 (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.
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* AdaptationDistillation: Mostly by virtue of being PlayedForLaughs, though YourMileageMayVary if you happened to ''like'' the book it's based on.
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* CompleteMonster: The African warlord General Kazim [[spoiler: who poisons his his own citizens, contaminatig the water in a mean and careless way due too much money in the payoffs from corrupt industrial corporations for him to care. Worse yet, he makes sure that his well armed henchmen will kill everyone who gets too close to the financial foundation of his dictatorship. He also personally kills Dr. Rojas'fellow with no second tought.]].
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** TheSmartGuy: Rudi Gunn
** TheChick: Eva Rojas
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** TheChick: Eva Rojas
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