The only humor in this movie was employed in the advertising campaign. The film can be described as a great work of mystery: How could Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey agree to do this movie?

It helps if you don't have a high opinion of either lead since their resumes don't scream quality. Plus this is a vehicle to stimulate their bank-ability for other presumably more lucrative projects.

Fool's Gold starts out great, amazingly so and then unfortunately turns more into the traditional romantic comedy action thriller by the end of the movie. Overall, the movie had a great send off and then attempts to glide home on its original power but runs out of creative gas and lands with a number of splashes but no amazingly, spectacular ending. This was a very difficult movie because Fool's Gold really is a step into the past without the extra thrills of current movies and relies mostly on quality acting and a fresh approach to comedy which the first half of this movie actually manages to do quite successfully. Kate Hudson is brilliant in the beginning. Even the Donald Sutherland's character with a on screen grand-daughter relationship moves in ways quite unusual for this genre - unfortunately this subdrama was developed and then thrown away. Commendably, this romantic comedy attempts to be a simple, performance-based, script-based comedy but has no safety net fall back on like most other spectacular big movies. This risky decision, left this movie open to the weaknesses of the character driven, script overtaken by the action and fairly simple building climax, shorn the fireworks the audiences have come to expect.

It wasn't bad, but it wasn't good either.

Anyone who has played Uncharted: Drake's Fortune for the Playstation 3 (which came out much earlier than the movie) would notice a lot of similarities. I'm not sure whether the movie is trying to rip off the game's story of if it was accidental. Either way, it was amusing to see how close both stories are.