Alien at the Movies

The highs & lows of dreamer & gold prospector Kenny Wells (Mathew McConaughey) is told in this inspired-by-a true-event film. In the 1980s, Wells teams up with geologist Michael Acosta (Edgar Ramirez) in the jungles of Indonesia where they claim to have finally struck the mother lode. Soon big time investors are clamoring at their door & their company Washoe Mining stock skyrockets on the New York Stock Exchange. Then the FBI steps in & the ending casts some doubts to people's guilt or innocence & their death or survival. Bryce Dallas Howard, Corey Stoll, Craig T. Nelson, Stacy Keach, & Bruce Greenwood are among the supporting cast of this interesting but uninspiring movie. This slow-to-develop story does prove that truth is sometimes stranger than fiction.

Alien gives it 2½ "mother lode strike or fool's gold" stars out of 4.