You don't need to read Clive Cussler's novel to enjoy Sahara. Hell, you don't even need to know how to read to enjoy Sahara, a fun, silly, white-knuckle action flick that exists in the smaller capillaries just outside vein that brought us Raiders of the Lost Ark and Sky Captain. Of course, Sahara can hardly be mentioned in the same breath as those movies, since it is far less enjoyable, but they are obviously what director Breck Eisner was chasing when he thought to make Sahara. Eisner's vision is clear: an all-balls, no-brains rollercoaster ride through exotic locales, over hazy deserts, and into the clutches of dastardly megalomaniacs, where a handsome action hero with a dark tan and pearly teeth can say "there's no way that should've worked" and be telling the truth—and get away with it. Sahara is silly fun for silly fun's sake, and it does its familiar dance with a smile.