GOLD 15

OUT NOW Digital HD 5 june DVD EXTRAS Featurettes, Deleted scene

Set in the ’80s and “inspired [ loosely] by actual events”, Gold fails to glitter as Matthew McConaughey’s paunchy, balding prospector teams with Edgar Ramírez’s geologist to hit the titular motherlode in the forests of Indonesia. A riseand-fall tale accompanied by McConaughey’s wheezily excitable voiceover, it wants to be Wolf Of Wall Street set in the Herzogian wilderness, but familiarity robs it of both mystery and brio. Disappointing given it’s directed by Stephen Gaghan (writer of Syriana and Traffic). Jamie Graham