GOLD centres around a shadey conspiracy involving a South African gold mine. Since it`s set in South Africa you can expect all the nausating cliches and stereotypes like the sadistic white racist who likes to beat up the " Feelthy blecks " , the noble black , the macho but anti racist white man etc. In fact much of the stereotypes are slightly offensive like " Big " King and his men who enjoy putting on a Zulu dance for the tourists . It wouldn`t be so bad if they kept to the Zulu diet of their ancestors but these " Zulus " seem to have been overdoing it on the beer and pizza a little bit and I doubt if Stanley Baker and Michael Caine would have had much trouble beating them . Luckily none of the secret illuminati are called Goldberg or Goldstien because that would have been racist , so the director has made these shadowey figures either English , Americans and Germans , the only exception being an Arab . But don`t worry about accusations of anti semetism because there`s a character called Hirschfeld . I don`t know if that`s a Jewish name but he`s portrayed as you`d expect a Jewish stereotype to be shown: Loud , vulgar , money orientated and is always smoking a big fat cigar .
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Despite all the racist stereotypes and cliches ( Or because of them ? ) I did find GOLD a fairly entertaining thriller . If I`ve a problem with the film it`s that it tries to be too many things at once . In some ways it`s not so much a conspiracy thriller but a disaster movie , but it`s not really a disaster movie , and it involves a romantic subplot but it`s not really a romance . I did enjoy the ending when the walls explode and the water gushes into the tunnels . Watch this scene carfully and you`ll see a miner with a mutilated face which is obviously a dummy . Oh and if his face has been totally destroyed like that then how`s he still able to scream ?
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Despite all the racist stereotypes and cliches ( Or because of them ? ) I did find GOLD a fairly entertaining thriller . If I`ve a problem with the film it`s that it tries to be too many things at once . In some ways it`s not so much a conspiracy thriller but a disaster movie , but it`s not really a disaster movie , and it involves a romantic subplot but it`s not really a romance . I did enjoy the ending when the walls explode and the water gushes into the tunnels . Watch this scene carfully and you`ll see a miner with a mutilated face which is obviously a dummy . Oh and if his face has been totally destroyed like that then how`s he still able to scream ?