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Such a shame for a film produced here in Australia. Poor narrative, poor production design and poorer cinematography. The colour grading of this film aka the desaturation looks cheap which underpins a stench of desperate film making. Be warned, this is 90mins you'll never get back and you'll start looking at your phone inside the first 10mins. Truly.

I watch a LOT of movies. This is the worst I've seen in a VERY long time. I don't have words for how bad it is. I've never even left a review for a movie before. I hope this saves someone. For the love of god, don't waste your time on this movie.

1 hour 40 dragged like it was 3 hours or more. How any major actors would consider doing a film like this is beyond me and I have worked in the entertainment industry for over 40 years. First of all the opening scene shows vultures in a tree, so, there are NO vultures in Australia unless I have been blind all my life. One review on here mentions coyotes, there are NO coyotes here either. The dogs who attack the camp are like nothing I have ever seen or heard of here. If there are dogs like that they would certainly not be left to roan near a compound which I am presuming is a mining compound he was heading for. Dingos certainly roam the outback but nothing looks like these wild dogs. For a while I thought the story may be set in the USA but then I noticed there were driving in a right hand drive vehicle. As for the sand storm scene, Efron's character gets a tree branch in his right side, a scene later it's in his left side, then it returns to his right side and when he tries to stop the blood it's in the left side again. How could the Director allow such a major error as this to be in the final print? Zac Efron, this movie and your atrocious makeup puts you at the bottom of the barrel in film making. What happened to that excellent star from The Greatest Showman?

Watching over a chunky mountain of gold in the australian desert outback country. A twisted story about greed and gloathing gold like king midas of the past. Hot sun and delirious minds, its litterary gold fever. A small cast survival thriller, a story that desmond bagley wouldve chuckled over and wilbur smith would nod about. The production shows the harsh dried out hell of australian desertlife, where the flies are kings and the snake and scorpions are the warriors. Neatly filmed and acted, the makeup squad gone bananas, and most stuff stashed like a good ol' madmax stage. If youre able to sit and wait for things to happen, youll be rewarded, i did. A small recommend from the grumpy old man.

Gold (2022) had a promising start and overall has demonstrated solid production value, although the washed-out look got old fast. While the acting was perfectly fine, as it gets closer to the end, it starts to wear on you. This isn't really a human nature study, more like a semi-survival film full of stupid decisions. The only human trait here was greed. Nothing more than that. In a future like this, you would think people would've still bet on survival over pointless death. The resolution is obvious from the start since this is what would happen in a real-life situation. They added a little "twist" at the end, but it barely connects, since it means nothing for the viewer or the characters, and rather solidifies the message the film is trying to push. The whole story relies on our main character not being too bright, and it's fine. The problem is that we barely know anything about the world and the characters. Frankly, there are no characters going through arcs, people encounter problems in a not-so-bright future, and never change. This was probably intended, and probably realistic enough, but even a couple of flashbacks establishing motivations or attitudes would've been great. Especially since the acting was good. As it is, Gold (2022) is an ok semi-survival film but feels very shallow and does not connect the viewer to what these "characters" are going through. There are also some things that make little sense, like why Virgil didn't just leave when he got the Stranger's loot. Since one can walk there on foot, he could've given it a try, it's not as a middle of nowhere as they said it was. I guess greed is an answer to anything in this, but the introductory scene (and the burial scene) suggested some sort of dignity or reliability in Virgil, soon to be gone, again, greed. Also, it is unclear when Keith got back since neither he nor the other Stranger was affected by the dust storm. I guess I'm nitpicking, but I'd still prefer Virgil to switch into survival mode at the end, there is greed, but people still have survival instincts. Overall, the film leaves a bad taste, which is intended but feels empty on details, which is not. It's not long, but I can't wholeheartedly recommend it, more like 50/50.

Accolades to Zac and the crew for enduring such a project set in the harsh barren landscape of a dystopian world (mainly the Aussie dessert outback), where even Bear Grylls would not have survived. How they managed such a shoot had me more intrigued than the movie itself. The story could have been told in short form, but we had to endure a whole feature to watch Zac go loony just for a chuck of gold; the mother lode that will not part from the earth. But still I was intrigued in observing mental disintegration under the scorching sun with pesky flies and a scorpion for companion. Not to forget those hungry wild dogs waiting for some human burger. Still, hats off to Zac Efron who gave the performance of his life. One of his best, without having to say much (thanks to the post-apocalyptic make-up). To top it all off was the effective cinematography that really got into the sunburnt mind of the protagonist. Maybe next time he will not forget the sunscreen cream.