In the 2000s, the only thing you really needed in order to convince Matthew McConaughey that signing onto any project would be worth his time was the promise that he’d get to spent an inordinate amount of time with his shirt off, with Fool’s Gold ticking that box and then some.
The sun-kissed action comedy roped in How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days star Kate Hudson, too, so it was destined to find a similar size of audience. That’s exactly what it did, with the movie raking in a stellar $111 million at the box office, despite the glaring fact it sucks hard.
Pounded into the ground by critics to a woeful 11 percent approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, Hudson also ended up securing a Razzie nomination for Worst Actress into the bargain. An action comedy that isn’t exciting or even remotely funny is hardly ideal, but beautiful people being beautiful against some beautiful backdrops while frolicking around without a care in the world is apparently irresistible to Netflix subscribers.
Per FlixPatrol, the treasure-hunting travesty has dug up long-buried treasure on the platform’s most-watched charts, 15 years after it was decided that it would go down in the annals of time as one of the genre’s most frivolous efforts.
The chemistry between the two leads remains as strong as it ever was, of that there’s no doubt, but there’s also the major issue that everything around them is about as banal and run of the mill as you could possibly hope to see in a frothy caper ladled in romance.
Published: Jul 11, 2023 02:37 am