I’m not sure if it counts as social progress, but Fool’s Gold flips the conventional movie notion of eye candy on its head. Matthew McConaughey bravely rips off his shirt, throws himself in front of the women and selflessly absorbs the camera’s leers. Here he plays a treasure hunter on the trail of a lost Spanish galleon in the Caribbean, with Kate Hudson as his business partner and former wife. They have the right chemistry to make this gender role reversal far more entertaining than it has any right to be, yet director Andy Tennant doesn’t give them nearly enough good scenes, instead bogging the movie down in pointless supporting characters and labyrinthine lore about the Spanish ship.
