I was FOOLED but I wont be again! (Fool's Gold (DVD))

Member Name: JHWilts

Product:	Fool's Gold (DVD)
Date:	15/06/09 (26 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: It ends

Disadvantages: I paid good money for this.

I very much enjoyed Sahara as a kind of easy to watch, lots of action film. It was boy's adventure film but room for the girls to enjoy.

I also enjoyed Kate Hudson and Matthew McConnaughey in How to Lose A guy in 10 Days, that was a great matching onscreen and so I went into this thinking if it had as much fun and humour as the two previous movies then what could go wrong?

Everything it seems.

Story:
Matthew plays Ben Finnegan who is married (for the first ten minutes at least) to Kate's character Tess. They are both treasure hunters obsessed with finding the legendary 18th century Queens Dowry - 40 chests of exotic treasure that was lost at sea in 1715 in a violent storm.

Finnegan has found what he believes to be a vital clue to the treasure - except his boat is sunk by the local gangster called Big Bunny - I kid you not, a completely uncliched black rap star - from whom Finnegan has borrowed a lot of money from. Now his boat has sunk "Where is the boat?" sketch slotted right in here, Finnegan has nothing with which to pursue his treasure hunt and by default, capture the heart again of his wife Tess.

But this is all too little too late for Tess who has filed for divorce and is now a steward on the fabulous yacht owned by billionaire Nigel Honeycutt (Donald Sutherland).

Well lookey here, who turns up unexpectedly? Finnegan! Wow, didn't see that coming!

Finnegan persuades Tess to believe him and Nigel to fund the treasure hunt.

Of course Big Bunny has contacts and is hunting the money and now the treasure so enter Ray Winstone who must have received a massive gas bill and decided to take this movie on.

This all leads to a wild romp on the oceans as they try and out do each other to find the treasure, find true love and daddy Nigel gets in touch with his adorably, cute and not at all spoilt estranged daughter Gemma. She is the brains of the outfit, watch out for her if you so desire to watch this movie.

I am sorry but there is nothing redemptive about this film. It is too long, too cliched, too predictable and the acting and storyline cannot rescue what is a real stinker. This movie should have sunk with the boat in the first 15 minutes of the film.

There is none of the great chemistry of How to Lose a Guy which is a shame as I believe they have the potential however this film does not deliver it. I fell asleep towards the end for 20 minutes, woke up and knew exactly what was happening and could predict what would happen.

Price
£2.99 on Play - good value if you need something to scare the birds off your runner beans.

Running Time:
Too long, sorry 1 hour and 48 minutes

Summary: Waste of time and effort, nightmare rubbish