2016 · adventure · drama · thriller
Gold
Directed by Stephen Gaghan2h 0m2016
Kenny Wells, a modern-day prospector, hustler, and dreamer, is desperate for a lucky break. Left with few options, Wells teams up with an equally luckless geologist to execute a grandiose, last-ditch effort: to find gold deep in the uncharted jungle of Indonesia.
Our read: Gold (2016) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive adventure · drama · thriller entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured adventure / drama, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
- inventive
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