Zac Efron

Instead of a feast of physical and psychological crumbling, Gold feels like just an appetizer only touching on the dangers of the desert, the consequences ...

All of these elements are engaging, but there's not enough of them to keep the film fully interesting (except maybe the unforgiving forces of the desert environment). It reaches its potential to a point, but this film ended with me still wanting more. This film reminded me of other survivalist adventures like "All is Lost" with Robert Redford (2013), "Arctic" with Mads Mikkelsen (2018) and even "The Old Man and the Sea" with Spencer Tracy (1958). Only six people appear on screen in "Gold," and the dialogue is rare. In the not-too-distance future, two strangers are driving through an endless landscape of empty, rocky desert cloaked in an ominous mood with hints of war, economic collapse and destruction.