Mark Harmon's Acting


"Tuareg: Desert Warrior" might have been an exceptional film if the lead character had been cast with an actor who had better acting skills than Mark Harmon. I don't like posting negative things about actors/actresses because I respect what they are able to do, but Mark Harmon being cast in this film was a huge mistake.



















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I am watching this movie even as I write; it's being shown on a TV station. I was going to start a post about Mark Harmon's acting in this movie when I saw your post, so I am adding to your thread. I started watching it just after the opening credits finished so I didn't know Harmon was in the cast. Even though when he first is seen on the screen his headwear is covering his lower face, I suspected the voice was Mark's, having heard it regularly on NCIS.

Roger Ebert has made disparaging comments about Mark's acting ability, and in this movie his acting is far from impressive. He talks like someone who is reading his lines aloud for the first time -- flat, soft, and emotionless. He enunciates each syllable (think of the typical actor in the role of an American Indian in countless numbers of TV and movie Westerns) instead of running the syllables together like people normally do.

It is also a little difficult accepting a Tuareg with blue eyes like Mark's. I have read that Tuaregs occasionally have blue eyes but it is rare.

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Having just watched the excellent TV docu series "Africa"
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0472938/
which had a segment on the Tuareg in Mali, I had to laugh because the Tuareg in the docu are black Africans, like those depicted in the movie "Sahara"
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0318649/
not the blue eyed Mark Harmon.

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