Fool's Gold
Fool's Gold is a comedy adventure about treasure hunting. That explains the gold part but the fools part may refer to otherwise venerable actors who here mistakenly believe they’re pulling off convincing foreign accents. Donald Sutherland comes up short doing a haughty British lilt while Britain’s Ray Winstone who did sound American in last years Oscar winner The Departed can’t master a southern drawl here and Scotland’s Ewen Bremner should have a better ear for accents considering the open car doors along side of his head. The action takes place in the Caribbean so no excuses have to be made for a mostly shirtless Matthew McConaughey and the endless close-ups of the striations of his deltoids and trapezius. He plays Finn (cute name for a scuba diver) going through a divorce with his wife Tess played by Kate Hudson who is fed up after 8 years chasing their dream of finding a sunken treasure (on the strength of some convoluted logic that makes differential calculus look like child’s play). He however has run afoul of a local gangsta rapper and finding the loot is literally a matter of life or death. He convinces her and billionaire yachtsman Nigel Honeycutt (Sutherland) to take one final crack at finding the lost bullion. With kudos’ to Alexis Dziena who redefines the term airhead as Gemma Honeycutt, Nigel’s daughter by a much younger Vegas cocktail waitress, Fool’s Gold isn’t exactly golden cinema but it’s a pleasant enough distraction.