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10/01/08
Fool's Gold (2008)
11 %
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Reviews Counted: 133
Fresh: 14
Rotten:119
Average Rating: 3.6/10
Consensus: With little chemistry among the performers, humorless gags, and a predictable storyline, Fool's Gold fails on every level.
Runtime: 1 hr 53 mins
Genre: Comedies
Theatrical Release: Feb 8, 2008 Wide
Box Office: $70,158,206
Synopsis: Having proven themselves a magnetic pair in 2003's HOW TO LOSE A GUY IN 10 DAYS, Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey team up once again as two fun-loving, bickering exes in this action-packed, violent, and sexy treasure hunt. Part romantic... [More]
Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Kate Hudson, Donald Sutherland, Ewen Bremner
Director: Andy Tennant
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Reviews for Fool's Gold
Just because these two pretty people flirted and pratfell well once, doesn't mean they can do it again--especially when they're trying to do it with such a clunker of a script on their hands.
09/08/08
As fluffy and mindless as its promotional materials may have indicated...
07/28/08
...more silly than romantic, more frantic than comedic, and more busy than adventurous.
06/12/08
[T]he frequency with which people are shot or drowned wears away at any attempts the film makes to be frothy or screwball.
05/01/08
Matthew McConaughey, whose continuing Hollywood career deserves a separate chapter in any future book by Richard Dawkins on the non-existence of God, is reunited for this romcom caper with Kate Hudson, herself uncompromisingly abysmal in everything.
04/18/08
A ghastly romantic comedy about a race to find a 17th-century Spanish wreck full of treasure. The film is completely dead behind the eyes.
04/18/08
No amount of gratuitous McConaughey ab-flashing (he never stops) or the parading of Kate Hudson in a weeny bikini can scrape this one off the sea bed. Plankton would be insulted.
04/18/08
http://www.totalfilm.com/cinema_reviews/films_out_this_week/fools_gold
04/18/08
Like Tess and Finn, the makers of Fool's Gold are motivated by lucre, not love.
04/18/08
To inject drama, the anaemic plot contorts to spin danger out of Finn’s debt to an island owning gangsta rapper (Kevin Hart), and his rivalry with his mentor.
04/18/08
I succumbed to the very occasional charms of this fair, good-natured romcom adventure and left the screening in quite a good mood.
04/18/08
Absolute tosh. A ridiculous, unerringly tedious plot is weighed down by listless performances from a cast who clearly wished they were somewhere else, despite the sumptuous locations.
04/18/08
Never do we believe that these two might actually be capable of hooking up off-screen, and this romantic flatness kills your appetite to keep watching.
04/15/08
The idiocy on display in this film is almost breathtaking ... but it's also far more entertaining than those slickly pretentious Hollywood thrillers.
04/10/08
... the two likable leads sink together in Fool's Gold, a leaden action adventure about treasure hunters.
03/27/08
Latest News for Fool's Gold
August 15, 2008:
Hero-Movies.com: McConaughey's sexy beach bum feeds his obsession for 40 lost chests of gold, while Kate smacks around lots of big, burly men who pretend to be terrified, in this snoozer treasure hunt travelogue. 
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April 23, 2008:
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