Gold

Name: Gold
Genre: Action, Thriller
Released: March 11, 2022
Duration: 97 min
Rating: 48
Cast: Akuol Ngot, Andreas Sobik, Anthony Hayes, Susie Porter, Thiik Biar

2022

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Screen Media Films | Release Date: March 11, 2022 | R

Starring: Akuol Ngot, Andreas Sobik, Anthony Hayes, Susie Porter, Thiik Biar, Zac Efron

Summary: In the not too distant future, two drifters (Zac Efron, Anthony Hayes) traveling through the desert stumble across the biggest gold nugget ever found and the dream of immense wealth and greed takes hold. They hatch a plan to excavate their bounty with one man leaving to secure the necessary tools. The other man remains and must endure harshIn the not too distant future, two drifters (Zac Efron, Anthony Hayes) traveling through the desert stumble across the biggest gold nugget ever found and the dream of immense wealth and greed takes hold. They hatch a plan to excavate their bounty with one man leaving to secure the necessary tools. The other man remains and must endure harsh desert elements, ravenous wild dogs, and mysterious intruders, while battling the sinking suspicion that he has been abandoned to his own fate.… Expand

Director: Anthony Hayes

Genre(s): Action, Thriller

Rating: R

Runtime: 97 min

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Alex Saveliev

Mar 9, 2022

Gripping and mercifully short, it doesn’t quite achieve the status of cinematic gold. Perhaps it’s for the best, or Hayes may have fallen prey to his ambitions. Read full review

Screen Rant Nadir Samara

Mar 14, 2022

Gold isn't a gut-punch, but it lulls to sleep before spearing with a jagged branch. Read full review

Sarah Jane

Mar 10, 2022

If you’re ready for 90-odd minutes of relentless desert scenes with Efron struggling to survive, then this movie is for you. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Christy Lemire

Mar 11, 2022

It's pretty standard man vs. nature stuff. It’s also a pretty simple parable about the perils of greed. All of this would be fine if “Gold” had more to it, but aside from its undeniable style, there’s very little there there. Read full review

The Playlist Ned Booth

Mar 11, 2022

As a movie, things play out as an obvious parable about the greed that grips men’s hearts once civilization’s fires die out. In terms of a one-man show for Efron, however, it provides too little dramatic flair to show he has a range beyond his pretty-boy charms. The film’s scope and setting are too barren to give Efron that opportunity. Read full review

Guy Lodge

Mar 13, 2022

As a lone drifter guarding a precious quarry in deadly desert conditions in a faintly futuristic nowhereland, [Efron's] good, as anyone’s who been paying attention should expect. Beyond that, it’s a somewhat arid exercise. Read full review

Amy Nicholson

Mar 10, 2022

The movie’s mood is unrelentingly miserable. Its cinematography, by Ross Giardina, is bleached-bone bright; its soundscape features more buzzing flies than music. Read full review

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Sydmwswy

Jul 2, 2022

Only someone who knows nature and cinema by nature can make such a film. We can feel the reality of the desert in this movie. And suspension...

A typical American movie.

1 of 1 users found this helpful10

IntakeCinema

Jul 5, 2022

Zac Efron gives a solid performance, there are a couple of nice shots of the Australian outback, and the makeup is good. Outside of those positives, there isn't much else on offer.

1 of 1 users found this helpful10

royalguy07

Jul 13, 2022

A little slow, really not much to dig into here or discuss, I thought the cinematography was good.

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MetacriticOnur

Mar 19, 2022

bad
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adjective, worse, worst;(Slang) bad·der, bad·dest for 36.
not good in any manner or degree.

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Mauro_Lanari

Oct 10, 2022

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Either your name is Luigi Zampa and in 1971 you tame with Sordi and Cardinale the symbolism that the Australian scenario lends itself to, or you do like George Miller and that desert becomes a simplistic metaphor of who knows what and how many other deserts. "Gold" follows the(Mauro Lanari)
Either your name is Luigi Zampa and in 1971 you tame with Sordi and Cardinale the symbolism that the Australian scenario lends itself to, or you do like George Miller and that desert becomes a simplistic metaphor of who knows what and how many other deserts. "Gold" follows the simplest solution, condemning itself to be not "a small brilliant example of productive pauperism" (Raffaele Meale), but "the grueling ordeal of the protagonist [as well as] of the spectator, who fidgets on the armchair between boredom for slowness and disgust for brutality" (Fabio Canessa). The choice to include Nick Cave in the soundtrack with his "People Ain't No Good" worsens the film even more.… Expand

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