Like Tess and Finn, the makers of Fool's Gold are motivated by lucre, not love.
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04/18/08
Fool's Gold (2008)
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Reviews Counted:138
Fresh:14
Rotten:124
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.
Theatrical Release:18-04-2008
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,... [More]
Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Kate Hudson, Donald Sutherland, Ewen Bremner
Director: Andy Tennant
Reviews for Fool's Gold
Top CriticNo 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
Top CriticAbsolute 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
Top CriticMatthew 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
Top CriticThe comedy, though, is broad and only mildly effective and the banter lacks edge and wit.
10/18/08
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
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
Top CriticA 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
Top Critichttp://www.totalfilm.com/cinema_reviews/films_out_this_week/fools_gold
04/18/08
Surprisingly enjoyable.
05/16/08
along the lines of Romancing the Stone or Six Days, Seven Nights... without the old man macking on the lesbian
02/08/08
Fool's Gold really pushes the violence level way out of proportion. It also pushes our level of tolerance for exposition.
02/07/08
A goofy romantic comedy and a clumsy action-adventure collide at sea.
02/15/08
My favorite stars spent three months in a tropical paradise and all I got was this lousy movie.
02/12/08
A bad movie, bad in almost every respect, bad as adventure and bad as romance and bad as comedy. It's really completely bad.
02/12/08
There's more continuity in an episode of Teletubbies.
02/07/08
The film exec who apparently thought that these two were the next Tracy and Hepburn was sadly mistaken. Heck, Matthew and Kate aren't even the new Frankie and Annette.
02/07/08
The tone of Fool's Gold often feels as if Tennant & Co. were straining to create a live-action version of a Bugs Bunny cartoon, from the slapsticky physical humor to the constantly jaunty score.
02/05/08
... the two likable leads sink together in Fool's Gold, a leaden action adventure about treasure hunters.
03/27/08
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