For all its efforts, the movie seems to know it`s sitting on a gold mine of a backstory, but it just can`t figure out how to get the stuff out of the ground, and this movie is indicated to playing the game, but McConaughey`s hard work is impressive, but that`s the only message Gold is interested in conveying.If this film wanted to make a salient point about the value of hard work or the perils of greed, that`d give us at least something to work with.but gold core reveals little of value. But its really brilliant