Fool's Gold Reviews
December 15, 2020
Making Nicolas Cage's National Treasure hunter seem like a rocket scientist in comparison, McConaughey's Ben seems to have trouble walking and talking at the same time.
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| Original Score: 1.5/5
November 28, 2020
The players are all poorly constructed stereotypes of cooler characters that many will remember from better movies.
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| Original Score: 2/10
September 8, 2020
While the latest McConaughey/Hudson pairing is far from worthless, you'd have to be a fool to find much gold in this tedious and lifeless cinematic outing.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4.0
February 3, 2018
No spark, no romance; just silly action, limp performances, and a dud of a payoff -- if, that is, you can stay awake.
January 6, 2014
Both McConaughey and Hudson look less interested in the material than cashing their checks and taking in the Bahamas sun.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
November 17, 2011
Original Score: 1/5
October 18, 2008
The comedy, though, is broad and only mildly effective and the banter lacks edge and wit.
October 18, 2008
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| Original Score: 1.5/5
October 18, 2008
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| Original Score: C
October 1, 2008
Yo-Ho-Ho hum.
Original Score: 2/5
September 8, 2008
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.
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| Original Score: 4/10
July 22, 2008
I Hated Hated Hated Hated Hated Hated Hated This Movie!!!!!!!!!
Original Score: .5/4
July 11, 2008
The film's final half hour does feature some decent action though, but by that point, you don't really care.
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| Original Score: 4/10
June 12, 2008
...more silly than romantic, more frantic than comedic, and more busy than adventurous.
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| Original Score: 5/10
May 1, 2008
[T]he frequency with which people are shot or drowned wears away at any attempts the film makes to be frothy or screwball.
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| Original Score: 2/5
April 18, 2008
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.
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| Original Score: 1/5
April 18, 2008
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.
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| Original Score: 1/5
April 18, 2008
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.
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| Original Score: 1/5
April 18, 2008
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| Original Score: 2/5
April 18, 2008
Like Tess and Finn, the makers of Fool's Gold are motivated by lucre, not love.
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| Original Score: 2/5