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Fool's Gold (2008)
Runtime: 1 hr 53 mins
Genre: Comedies
Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Kate Hudson, Donald Sutherland, Ewen Bremner, Alexis Dziena
Screenwriter: John Claflin, Daniel Zelman, Andy Tennant
Story: John Claflin, Daniel Zelman
Producer: Donald DeLine, Bernie Goldmann, Jon Klane
Composer: George Fenton
Reviews
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.
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.
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.
http://www.totalfilm.com/cinema_reviews/films_out_this_week/fools_gold
Like Tess and Finn, the makers of Fool's Gold are motivated by lucre, not love.
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.
I succumbed to the very occasional charms of this fair, good-natured romcom adventure and left the screening in quite a good mood.
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.
The idiocy on display in this film is almost breathtaking ... but it's also far more entertaining than those slickly pretentious Hollywood thrillers.
[T]he frequency with which people are shot or drowned wears away at any attempts the film makes to be frothy or screwball.
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.
... the two likable leads sink together in Fool's Gold, a leaden action adventure about treasure hunters.
Um dos tipos de besteira mais irritantes que existem: aquele que acredita precisar de duas horas para ser contado.
IF THERE IS A ROMANTIC-COMEDY HELL, Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson surely stand at the gates waving people in.
Ocean lovers can ignore the lame plot at the forefront in favor of concentrating on the shimmering beauty of the water.
This is garbage. It's pretty garbage inhabited by pretty people in pretty surroundings, but it's still garbage.
Thought it falters almost as often as it succeeds, Fool's Gold has an odd, low-key appeal.
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