Gold Film Review

Finished watching Gold, directed by Stephen Gaghan and staring Matthew McConaughey, Craig T. Nelson, Bryce Dallas Howard and Édgar Ramírez. The film opens with Kenny Wells (Matthew McConaughey) struggling to make money after his family company as been struggling to get a contract of work to be able to mine for gold since his father's (Craig T. Nelson) death a few years prior, which has led Kenny to move in with his girlfriend Kay (Bryce Dallas Howard). In a final attempt to find work Kenny uses the last of his money to meet with geologist Michael Acosta (Édgar Ramírez) in Indonesia with the hope to find gold by mining in the local rainforest. Overall this was decent film as it dives into the world of the gold industry to tell the story of Kenny Wells who went from near broke to being able to rebuild his family company, which is quite the interesting premise, however with the film focusing the majority of its time on Kenny and how he rebuilds his company, it leaves other characters to be second fiddle and slightly underdeveloped. The different interactions between each character is pretty good as it helps to show how the relationship are and how they influence Kenny and the film. The musical choices form the soundtrack to the score by Daniel Pemberton is great as it fits the time period and even the film's tone extremely well with how it complements the film. 6/10.