Gold: Movie Review
Gold: Movie Review Cast: Zac Efron, Anthony Hayes, Susie Porter Director: Anthony Hayes Two men, one large gold nugget, one unending desert, and one heck of a trust issue. These are the simple components of survival-thriller Gold, a film that's sparse in its execution and occasionally lacking in its narrative. A limping Zac Efron plays an unknown man who meets another man (Hayes) in a desert to take him to a compound. But on their journey, the truck the pair is in starts to break down so the duo pulls over - and that's when Efron's character discovers, glinting in the sun, a large chunk of gold... As the two of them dig deeper, they realise this is the biggest nugget around and will make them rich - however, one will need to return to get an excavation truck, leaving the other behind to guard the gold and to see if they can be trusted. So as Hayes' character sets off, Efron's man is left in an unforgiving climate, with doubts and circling vultures nibbling at his ...