Movie: Fool’s Gold

Starring Matthew McConaughey, Kate Hudson and Donald Sutherland this movie had a fair bit of potential. Ben Finnigan (played by Matthew McConaughey) is a treasure hunter along with his soon to be ex-wife Tess (Kate Hudson). After spending the last 7 years searching for the elusive buried treasure he is obsessed with they are in debt and no closer to glory. The debt is also held with the obligatory villian, a gangster rapper known as Big Bunny. Donald Sutherland plays a mega rich passerby that decides to bankroll the continuing operation to find the treasure. The locations for filming are stunning, the acting perfectly fine, the story to tell is great, but I have an issue with the roles which are ridiculous. Ben is a ditzy klutz that just doesn’t suit the physique of Matthew while the blond haired, blue eyed Tess is the brains of the operation. Not that there is anything wrong with this however it was a painfully obvious roll reversal of the stereotypical character types that these actors "physically" personify.Then, they have thrown in an incredibly embarrassing ditz of a female character and the premise here is to show how ditzy she is and how she eventually learns that she doesn’t have to be like that. Plllleeeeaaassseee!!! Could we not have just a bunch of intelligent people dealing with the puzzles that come at them in order to find the treasure. The story of the buried treasure and the clues to find it are great so I don’t know why they didn’t make this movie more intelligent! Anyway, that’s my scathing report on it. Should you see it? Wait until you can get it on DVD, in the cheap section! 1 out of 5.