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6.2/10 • 576

2022-01-131h 37m

ActionAdventureThriller

Survive at any cost

In the not-too-distant future, two drifters traveling through the desert stumble across the biggest gold nugget ever found and the dream of immense wealth and greed takes hold. They hatch a plan to excavate their bounty, with one man leaving to secure the necessary tools while the other remains with the gold. The man who remains must endure harsh desert elements, ravenous wild dogs, and mysterious intruders, while battling the sinking suspicion that he has been abandoned to his fate.

Directors
Anthony Hayes
Editors
Sean Lahiff

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  1. Zac Efron

    Zac Efron

    Virgil

  2. Anthony Hayes

    Anthony Hayes

    Keith

  3. Susie Porter

    Susie Porter

    The Stranger

  4. Andreas Sobik

    Andreas Sobik

    Outpost attendant

  5. Akuol Ngot

    Akuol Ngot

    Mother on train

  6. Thiik Biar

    Thiik Biar

    Baby on train

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CinemaSerf

Jun 2, 2022

5/10

No character has a name in this, but Clint Eastwood it isn't. Zac Efron is taking a pee out in the desert when he spots an uncommonly large deposit of gold. His pal Anthony Hayes and he try to move it, but it's just too big. Plan? Well Hayes decides to head to the nearest town to try and procure some heavy lifting equipment and leaves Zac to keep watch. Hmmm? Well, anyway Hayes isn't exactly rushing back to his friend who is gradually running out of food, water, having hallucinations, fending off wild dogs and even a rogue Irish women as his grasp on reality starts to slip... Efron is actually not bad as the man who gradually succumbs to despair and dehydration, but the story plods along far too slowly for almost eighty minutes before the last ten minutes provide a denouement with a bit of a twist to the tale. It is good that Efron is pushing himself away from his pretty boy roles - indeed the make-up folks here do such a good job that I doubt even a biblical leper would welcome him into their home, but the story all takes way too long to get going and the it, quite literally, crawls along. The production does look good - the desert photography has an almost naturally sepia colour to it that emphasises just how hostile this terrain is and the narrative does say something about the degree to which greed is hard wired into our psyche though; and the perils we will endure or permit to obtain wealth. Thought provoking? Maybe, but it's still really quite a wearisome watch and I'm not sure I would bother again.

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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
$6,500,000.00
Revenue
$176,048.00
Keywords
paranoiasurvival