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Fool's Gold (2008)

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Critics Reviews Average Grade:   D+
Source Brief Review Grade*
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
"...a tedious adventure-romance..." more... D  
Chicago Tribune
Geoff Berkshire
"...fails spectacularly at comedy, romance and adventure." more... C-
E! Online
Chris Farnsworth
"...familiar and bland..." more... C-
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
"...dead-in-the-water..." more... D  
filmcritic.com
Sean O'Connell
"...a bad film." more... D  
Hollywood Reporter
Michael Rechtshaffen
"A soggy, listless affair..." more... D  
Los Angeles Times
Carina Chocano
"Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson have chemistry but no script to speak of in a would-be adventure flick that goes nowhere fast." more... D+
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
"...excruciatingly lame and laughless..." more... D  
New York Times
A. O. Scott
"...turns into a dull, noisy pursuit of old Spanish coins, aided by maps and letters and enough pseudohistorical explanation to round out the next episode in the National Treasure franchise." more... C-
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
"The movie isn't entirely successful as a romance or as an adventure, which makes the experience of watching it feel shallow and hollow, sort of like the stars and the plot." more... C+
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
"...a romantic comedy and an adventure story, but in this case that just means it bombs in two distinct ways." more... D  
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold
"...the script is fatally stupid..." more... C  
USA Today
Claudia Puig
"...a foolish enterprise if ever there was one." more... C-
* Yahoo! Movies converts each critic's published rating into a letter grade. If the critic's review does not include a rating, Yahoo! Movies assigns a grade based on an assessment of the review. (more...)
 
 


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