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Fool's Gold is an 2008 (4 years ago) adventure/romance movie from Warner Bros. pictures (wallpaper) about a married couple who rekindle their romantic life while searching for a lost treasure. The movie was directed by Andy Tennant and reunites the How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days stars Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson. The MPAA rated the movie PG-13 for action violence, some sexual material, brief nudity and language.

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Plot

Benjamin "Finn" Finnegan (Matthew McConaughey) is a treasure hunter looking for a treasure from a Spanish galleon known as the Aurelia, that was lost at sea with the 1715 (297 years ago) Treasure Fleet. In his search to find the treasure, his wife, Tess (Kate Hudson (12 walls)) divorces him. Tess has been working as a steward on a huge yacht owned by multi-millionaire Nigel Honeycutt (Donald Sutherland). Finn finds a clue to the location of the treasure and manages to get on Honeycutt's yacht The Precious Gem and convince him, his daughter Gemma (Alexis Dziena) and Tess to join him in searching for the treasure. A local gangster named Bigg Bunny (Kevin Hart) and Finn's mentor Moe Fitch (Ray Winstone) are intent on finding the treasure first.

The Precious Gem and Moe's vessel compete to find the treasure in The Bahamas. As Finn attempts to secretly take down Moe's search grid, Finn discovers a sword which is a clue to finding the treasure. Finn and Tess follow the clues to an ancient church and discover a diary describing the location of the treasure. Bigg Bunny and his associates, who have been following Finn and Tess, take Tess hostage and assume (incorrectly) that Finn was killed. Bigg Bunny forces Tess to aid him in the search for the treasure in a blowhole, the location revealed in the diary. Tess finds the treasure in a cave beneath the blowhole. Meanwhile, Finn and the Honeycutts enlist the help of Moe in taking the treasure out of Bigg Bunny's hands. They arrive as Bigg Bunny sends one of his associates to bring him the treasure, and the other to take out Moe as he swims towards Bigg Bunny's seaplane. The blowhole kills Bigg Bunny's employee and traps Tess and Finn, while Moe tries to stop Bigg Bunny from taking off. Finn saves Tess only to have Bigg Bunny kidnap her from him again. Gemma gets Finn to Bigg Bunny's plane on her jet ski and Finn leaps on the plane's pontoon as the plane takes off. As Bigg Bunny attempts to shoot Finn, Tess kicks Bigg Bunny out of the plane and sends him into the ocean. The final Bigg Bunny henchman is taken prisoner by Moe (after he has shot Moe in the leg with a speargun).

Finn and Tess are reunited and save the treasure together and Tess is shown pregnant. Finn, Tess, Nigel, Gemma, Moe and those who contributed in helping or finding the treasure open a museum displaying all of their finds.

Cast

Matthew McConaughey - Ben 'Finn' Finnegan
Kate Hudson (12 walls) - Tess Finnegan
Donald Sutherland - Nigel Honeycutt
Alexis Dziena - Gemma Honeycutt
Ray Winstone - Moe Fitch
Kevin Hart - Bigg Bunny Deenz
Ewen Bremner - Alfonz
Brian Hooks - Curtis
Malcolm-Jamal Warner - Cordell
Roger Sciberras - Andras

Production

Warner Bros. and director Andy Tennant planned to shoot the movie in the Caribbean, but decided on Queensland, Australia because the hurricane season in the Caribbean was likely to stall production of the film. The Key West scenes were filmed in Port Douglas. Filming also took place in Brisbane, the Gold Coast, Hamilton Island, Lizard Island, Airlie Beach, and Hervey Bay. Scenes were also filmed at Batt Reef, where Steve Irwin died from a stingray barb in 2006 (6 years ago).

Inside scenes were shot on a sound stage at the Warner Bros studio facility and the actors and crew stayed in luxury homes and apartments on the Gold Coast. McConaughey mentioned having a python in the backyard of his house in Port Douglas. McConaughey said, "There were other days like the day we went out diving and swam with a dugong, which was very cool." It was said that Kate Hudson (12 walls) disliked working with McConaughey because of his lack of personal hygiene. McConaughey has often said he never uses cologne or deodorant.

Two crew members were stung by Irukandji jellyfish during filming, so some of the water scenes were shot in the Caribbean because the actors were so frightened.

The Precious Gem luxury motor yacht in the movie is called the Keri Lee in real life. It was designed by yacht architect Ward Setzer of Setzer Design Group and originally named Status Quo. It is privately owned and operated by Lee Group Charters.

The yacht's tender was a 2007 (5 years ago) Chris-Craft Launch 25.

Release

The movie was released Feb. 8, 2008 (4 years ago) in the United States and Canada and grossed $21.5 million in 3,125 theaters its opening weekend, ranking #1 at the box office. As of sep. 14, 2008 (4 years ago), the movie has grossed over $110.5 million worldwide � $70.2 million in the United States and Canada and $40.3 million in other territories.

Reception

The movie received vastly negative reviews from critics. As of Mar. 2, 2008 (4 years ago), the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reported that 10% of critics gave the movie positive reviews, based on 110 reviews. Metacritic reported the movie had an average score of 29 out of 100, based on 28 reviews.

Several critics compared the movie unfavorably to National Treasure and Romancing the Stone. Some critics referred to the movie as "tedious" and "listless."

Peter Travers of Rolling Stone gave the movie zero stars out of 4 and said "Paris Hilton's appalling" The Hottie and the Nottie is "marginally better." Travers wrote "I defy any 2008 (4 years ago) comedy to be as stupid, slack and sexless" as Fool's Gold.

Lou Lumenick of the New York Post gave the movie 1 star out of 4 and called it "excruciatingly lame." Lumenick said "It's all basically an excuse to show off the scenery", including McConaughey's abs.

Carrie Rickey of The Philadelphia Inquirer gave the movie 1 1/2 stars out of 4 and said it "plays like a Three Stooges movie with scuba gear.", but that "a Three Stooges movie is enlightened next to this one." Rickey described McConaughey as "perennially shirtless" and Hudson as "peculiarly mirthless."

Pete Vonder Haar of movie Threat gave the movie 1 1/2 stars and said "the resolution is never in doubt, the villains are comedic rather than menacing, and no one involved seems to care one way or the other that their names are attached to this indifferent mess." Vonder Haar said McConaughey plays Finn "as Sahara's Dirk Pitt minus the SEAL training and a few million brain cells." and asked "Does McConaughey have some codicil in his contract stipulating he must spend at least 51% of a movie shirtless?"

Sid Smith of the Chicago Tribune gave it 2 stars out of 4 and said the characters "are comic book clich�s." Smith said "the outcome is predictable" and "The wasted talents include Sutherland, affecting a hokey British accent, and hatchet-faced Ewen Bremner."

Brian Lowry of Variety said "The lure of Matthew McConaughey shirtless for extended stretches doubtless has some marketing value, but after that, Fool's Gold offers small compensation." Lowry wrote "At times the pic feels like a comedic version of The Deep, only without the comedy." Lowry said the tropic scenery was well-shot but said "there's not much chemistry" between McConaughey and Hudson.

Carina Chocano of the Los Angeles Times called it a "cheesy, familiar bore" and said it "feels at times like a third-rate Bond movie set to a Jimmy Buffett album." Chocano said "Hudson is the best thing about the movie. She has a likable, grounded presence and sharp comic timing."

Nathan Rabin of The A.V. Club gave the movie a "C+" and called it "the kind of thing people watch because it's the in-flight movie." Rabin called the repeated mentions of Finn's sexual prowess "a delightfully unnecessary move." Rabin said the movie "outstays its welcome by a good 20 minutes" and called it "extravagantly stupid", but that the film's strengths were the "photogenic locales, obscenely beautiful stars, a laid-back soundtrack" and an unwillingness to take itself seriously.

Lou Lumenick said the ending was "surprisingly bloody" and Brian Lowry said the ending is "a little more violent than necessary" and "a bit grittier than it should be tonally, as if we've detoured into a different movie."

Simon Braund of Empire magazine gave the movie 1 star out of 5 and called it "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 location."

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