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The Sign of Four (2001)
Trash - plain and simple
I only caught the last 40 minutes or so of it on TV thank goodness. The accents are appalling, the acting wooden and artistic license has meant that the plot deviates from the original book in too many ways. I doubt very strongly that there was a dialogue coach - but if there was then he was taking money under false pretences.
Matt Frewer was an awful choice for Holmes - it's almost as though he plays the part for laughs. The best actor who has played the part was Jeremy Brett - he was a manic-depressive and so fitted the part quite well.
So far as I'm concerned this insult to a good story should never have been released and quietly burnt!
Sahara (2005)
All action and no substance
As a fan of Clive Cussler I was saddened to find that this yet another appalling adaptation of one of his novels.
The casting was terrible, the screenplay lacklustre and the direction non-existent.
Add to that the fact that key parts of the original novel were either cut or completely ignored and all you are left with is a movie that is only fit for screening in the early hours of the morning when almost no one is watching.
The opening scenes, in which a passenger is smuggled aboard the Texas would be hard to keep true as the passenger was Abraham Lincoln! Add to that the entire Kitty Mannock thread was either cut or ignored and then loose the boat trip up the Niger in West Africe and it becomes hollow and lacking in substance. Then cut out the action sequence at the end in Fort Fouraeu which made the movie sequence look like a Laurel and Hardy movie! The finale of this travesty of a movie was the casting - Dirk Pitt is supposed to be a handsome lady killer, not a someone who resembles a typical redneck. the actor playing Al Giordino is also a completely wrong choice as well.
To sum up, it even makes the Raise the Titanic disaster look good! I wish it was possible to give negative scores - but 1 will have to do.