The comedy, though, is broad and only mildly effective and the banter lacks edge and wit.
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10/18/08
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
Surprisingly enjoyable.
05/16/08
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
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 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 Critichttp://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
Top CriticTo 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 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 CriticThe 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
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10/18/08
Yo-Ho-Ho hum.
10/01/08
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
I Hated Hated Hated Hated Hated Hated Hated This Movie!!!!!!!!!
07/22/08
The film’s final half hour does feature some decent action though, but by that point, you don’t really care.
07/11/08
...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
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
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