Kim's Thoughts
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Movie Review – Fools Gold
I went to see Fools Gold today at the 10:00 early bird matinee in Sanford! This movie stars Kate Hudson, Matthew McConaughy, Donald Sutherland, and Alexis Dziena. It was a fairly good movie — not great, but not bad, and there were parts that were pretty good.It is the story of Finn (McConaughy) and Tess (Hudson) who, at the start of the movie, are getting a divorce. Finn and Tess were treasure hunters in the Florida Keys and Tess wanted a more stable life in Chicago. Finn gets into trouble with a gangster rapper who loaned him money to upgrade his boat. When the boat burns and sinks, the gangster rapper has his henchmen kill him to retaliate for losing his investment. Tess works as a steward on the yacht of millionaire Nigel Honeycutt (Sutherland). At the divorce proceedings, Finn tells Tess that he found evidence of the treasure ship they have been searching for years for is right where they thought it was and tries to talk her into looking for it with him. She declines but decides to ask her boss to help HER find it using his yacht. Finn finds out there is a millionaire in port and goes after him for a loan. They end up both convincing Nigel to go on this treasure hunt all together and the adventure begins – including: the gangster rapper finds out his order to kill Finn wasn’t successful, so he goes after him again – an old friend-turned-rival finds out about his discovery and goes for it himself – and the famous, spoiled, “Paris Hilton” type daughter (Dziena) of millionaire Nigel gets involved and does an adorable job of acting all ditzy!!!!
The movie starts out really slow and I was just about to give in and consider it a dud…….but, about 1/2 way through, it picked up and started to get good. There were some really good chase and fight scenes filmed both on and under the water and some great scenery shots of the beautiful waters off the Florida Keys and the Caribbean.
So — will this get added to my video/DVD collection? NO
Was I sorry I spent the money on it? NO
Did I enjoy it? For the most part, YES……
Rating – 1 shakey thumbs up or a B-
Best line? Finn’s Ukranian partner is defending his value as a person and says: “I am the lead character of my own story!” I like that — it just might become my second favorite phrase right after “Choose Your Attitude”!!!
Kim's Thoughts 
It’s funny — somehow, that’s not a movie I would’ve gone to see for the car chases & fight scenes. Funny that that would be its redeeming feature!