The action does kick in eventually, but director Andy Tennant's staging is uninspired. The picture also grows more violent than you might expect -- a development that smacks of desperation.
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02/08/08
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.
Runtime: 1 hr 53 mins
Genre: Comedies
US 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,... [More]
Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Kate Hudson, Donald Sutherland, Ewen Bremner
Director: Andy Tennant
Reviews for Fool's Gold
The plot gets messier without getting funnier, and there's something distasteful about the way the movie treats its black Bahamian characters.
02/08/08
The movie winds up as a lot of pretty people sitting around a movie set waiting for a director and writers to strike comic or romantic gold. At least their tans were 24 karat.
02/08/08
At least costume designer Ngila Dickson didn't have to work too hard on McConaughey's wardrobe.
02/08/08
Nothing about the movie is memorable, unless you happen to be McConaughey's undoubtedly proud personal trainer.
02/08/08
There are several dazzlingly pretty but profoundly dumb characters in Fool's Gold, characteristics they share with the film itself.
02/08/08
Fool's Gold isn't so much a film as an opportunity to pay homage to Matthew McConaughey's impressive physique.
02/08/08
Anything can happen -- anything except anything remotely entertaining.
02/08/08
Top CriticThe best thing you can say about Fool's Gold is that it gets less bad as it goes along.
02/08/08
The greatest stars in the world could not salvage something so ill-conceived, however, and neither can director Andy Tennant.
02/08/08
A semi-adventure and even less of a romantic comedy, only pretends to whip up excitement.
02/08/08
Not offensive. Not icky. Not even naughty. Just stupid.
02/08/08
You might even forget you're watching a movie and think you're having flashbacks to Us Weekly.
02/08/08
It's so riddled with complications and exposition (a queen's dowry, hurricanes, libraries in Spain) you wish the audience had just been handed an appendix and footnotes that covered the boring parts.
02/08/08
It is such a prefabricated, false-feeling, scattered and awkward stab at a romantic comedy you feel embarrassed for everyone involved and sorry for anyone who spends money on a ticket expecting a decent date movie.
02/08/08
What didn't figure into the equation was fresh writing.
02/08/08
Several good actors turn up to no particular effect -- including Ray Winstone as Finn's surly mentor, and Donald Sutherland as a mega-yacht-owning billionaire.
02/08/08
[A] sorry deep-sea adventure.
02/08/08
When I was bored watching it (which is to say often) I thought about admiring the hard work McConaughey did for this picture and how all that work appears to have gone into his abs.
02/08/08
Screen couplings that work are things to be treasured. In that sense, Fool's Gold is as close to the real thing as we've come in a while.
02/08/08
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