砂漠を旅する2人の男が、莫大な量の金塊を発見した。しかしその大部分が地下に埋まっているため、1人が発掘に必要な道具を調達しに行き、その間もう1人が金塊を見張ることに。衛星電話とわずかな水と食料だけを頼りに仲間の帰りを待つ男は、灼熱の大地と襲い来る野犬の中、金塊を盗賊から守り抜くべく孤独な闘いを繰り広げる。
製作費: $6,500,000 (10億円)
興行収入: $176,048 (0億円)
推定収支: $-6,323,952 (-9億円)
※製作費・興行収入はTMDBのデータを参照しています。収支は(興行収入 - 製作費)で算出したFindKey独自の推定値であり、広告宣伝費や諸経費は含まれません (1ドル=150円換算)。
監督: アンソニー・ヘイズ
脚本: アンソニー・ヘイズ / Polly Smyth
音楽: Antony Partos
制作: アンソニー・ヘイズ / John Schwarz / Michael Schwarz
撮影監督: Ross Giardina
制作会社: Deeper Water / Rogue Star Productions / Screen Australia / Stan / South Australian Film Corporation
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.
