This movie is a total crap. Avoid it at all cost. Why ? Here’s why …
1) Lame Storyline
The same lame storyline in a typical adventure movie, you know - bad guys trying to fuck the whole planet up. A hero appears with his funny sidekick and a hot girl, got unbelievably lucky foiling the bad guy’s evil plot. Kills the mob boss, bone the girl, bask a heroic ending and lives happily ever after.
2) Bad casting
The whole cast wouldn’t have looked that bad … if it wasn’t for the main character which was played by Matthew McConaughey. It just doesn’t add to the formula of an adventure/action film. He’s not funny, is clumsy and has problem focussing with his eyes when talking to someone - so seriously apparent, that it actually convinced me that he has a set of crossed eyes.
3) Preposterous plots
- When you’re being shot with heaps of automatic high powered rifles, you can’t just get lucky enough to be able to live right out of it because the entire platoon of enemy soldiers can’t shoot no shit.
- Camels/vehicles don’t just appear when you needed them most.
- Enemy soldiers don’t just surrender when their general dies.
- You can’t just drive an antique car like an all-terrain 4 wheel drive vehicle.
Things like that.
You know, they could have just hired The Rock to play a role as a madman punching camels in the middle of the desert. It probably would have been a lot more interesting and make more senses.