a5c7b9f00b A new clue to the whereabouts of a lost treasure rekindles a married couple's sense of adventure – and their estranged romance. Benjamin Finnegan is a deep-sea treasure hunter certain he's onto the find of the century in waters near an island close to Key West owned by a murderous rap star to whom Ben is in debt. Ben's flat broke and recently divorced from Tess, his long-time research and diving partner whom he still loves. She's nearby, working as a steward aboard the yacht of Nigel Honeycutt, a multimillionaire. The rapper has hired a rival treasurer hunter. Can Ben convince Nigel to bankroll his search, convince Tess to work with him, keep the rapper and his thugs at bay, and find a Spanish treasure hidden for centuries and rich beyond imagination? The amusing antics of "How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days" co-stars Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson brighten up "Hitch" director Andy Tennant's largely comic, rarely credible, and ultimately predictable romantic action comedy "Fool's Gold," with Donald Sutherland, Alex Dizena, and Ray Winstone. This atmospheric but anemic 112-minute, PG-13 rated, treasure hunting yarn contains trace elements of originality, credibility, and suspense. Indeed, Matthew and Kate make a thoroughly believable couple, and their repartee almost compensates for the hackneyed action half of the plot that has been done to death. Tennant imitates entire action scenes from earlier films. For example, the flying boat sequence that has McConaughey scrambling onto one of the pontoons, riding it into the clouds, and then taking charge of the aircraft in the air from the pilot appeared in the 1989 James Bond opus "Licensed to Kill." <br/><br/>The first scene in "Fool's Gold" is the funniest and sets the tone for this disposable escapade. Ben Finnegan (Mathew McConaughey of "U-571") and his buddy Alfonz (Ewen Bremner of "Trainspotting") are scouring the ocean floor for treasure with the equivalent of an underwater leaf blower. Above them, aboard their untended ship, a faulty air compressor ignites a piece of paper that floats into the wheel house and creates a fire. While our oblivious heroes rummage around the ocean floor, their ship explodes and sinks behind them in a huge cloud. Ironically, when the vessel hits bottom, the impact dislodges a plate shard buried in the sand. Ben catches the shard and recognizes the plate was part of the fabled cargo of a Spanish treasure ship that sank in a hurricane back in 1715 on its way to Spain. Only after Ben and Alfonz surface and look around do they realize that their ship has settled at the bottom of Davy Jones' locker. <br/><br/>Meanwhile, island gangster Bigg Bunny (Kevin Hart of "Soul Plane"), who cuddles a rabbit, orders his henchmen to kill Ben. Bigg believes Ben sabotaged his own ship. Further, Bigg wants Ben dead because Ben owes Bigg over $62-thousand dollars. Bigg's henchmen haul Ben off for a date with an anchor and the briny blue depths. At the same time, Ben's feisty wife Tess Finnegan (Kate Hudson of "Almost Famous") is divorcing Ben, so that she can secure a loan and return to school. After the divorce, she learns that she no longer owns a boat and decks Ben with a walking stick. Tess takes a steward job aboard a luxurious yacht owned by multi-millionaire Nigel Honeycutt (Donald Sutherland of "M.A.S.H.") and freaks out when Ben shows up to ask Nigel to fund his treasure hunt. Bigg hires rival treasure hunter Mo Fitch (Roy Winstone of "Beowulf") to beat Ben to the Spanish treasure. Nigel's jet-setting daughter Gemma (Alex Dizena of "Havoc") flies in to sponge off her father and show her ignorance. Sutherland is hilarious as a wealthy British subject and his performance and ersatz accent brings to mind the late great Ronald Colman. Matthew McConaughey is hopelessly virile and Kate Hudson is as wacky as the late Lucille Ball.<br/><br/>The adventure part of "Fool's Gold" runs aground because of its clownish villains. A troop of girl scouts could whip the African-American bad guys here. Not only are they are terrible pistol shots, but for all of their notoriety they also pose little challenge to Matt and Kate. Unfortunately, Tennant and co-writers John Claflin and Daniel Zelman cannibalize three infinitely better movies, namely "Into The Blue" (2005), "The Deep" (1977), and "Underwater!" (1955), for their treasure salvage plot. All these movies used the sunken, buried, or hidden Spanish treasure routine with greater success. Although much of this movie takes place at sea, you won't see a shark in sight and sometimes you don't even see any fish. What's worse, "Fool's Gold" roughly resembles the more straightforward McConaughey movie "Sahara" (2005) about Civil War treasure hunters. Unlike the goofy romantic action comedy that "Fool's Gold" qualifies as, everybody in "Sahara" played things straight. Ostensibly, like pyrite, "Fool's Gold" is all glitter and no grit. While this movie wasn't so bad that I turned it off, it was still pretty awful. The plot sucked, the accents were TERRIBLE, and the dialogue was long winded and boring. If you want to bore yourself silly for 2 hours then watch this movie. They tried very hard to make this movie clever and "kitchy", but ended up with a confusing mess. For some reason Kate Hudson is screaming and/or squealing in every scene, and Matthew McConaughey seems to always be shoeless. As movies go, this one is also very predictable. You clearly know what is going to happen before it does, which is fairly annoying. Not a total yawnfest, but pretty darn close. Tennant keeps his extravagantly stupid new comedy breezing along affably on the strength of photogenic locales, obscenely beautiful stars, a laid-back soundtrack, and a wholesale unwillingness to take itself the least bit seriously. Fool's Gold is based on a screenplay written by American screenwriters John Claflin, Daniel Zelman, and Andy Tennant. Code Name Is Alaska Star movie downloadEpisode 2.14 in tamil pdf downloadEpisode 1.147 full movie hd 720p free downloadthe Br tal Legend downloadtamil movie dubbed in hindi free download Grieve's Aeontamil movie dubbed in hindi free download Kung Pow: Enter the FistJason X full movie with english subtitles online downloadtamil movie Lemon Cove free downloadDownload hindi movie Case of the Missing ManThoughtcrimes in hindi free download
Letongpote Admin replied
366 weeks ago