Oh boy. Where to start with director Darren Aronofsky's latest work? The films stars Aronofsky's fiance, Rachel Weisz and Hugh Jackman and moves amid three stories. In the first we have a 16th century Spanish conquistador named Tomas (Jackman) searching for the Tree of Life (that famous tree that Eve plucked the apple from only to have us all fall from Grace). In the second, Thomas (Jackman) is a modern-day scientist trying to find a cure for his terminally-ill wife, Izzy (Weisz) and doing all sorts of odd experiments on a monkey. And a third where Jackman is now a Buddha-like character living in a bubble containing the tree of life. Did I just type that?... In short, while the visuals in the film are gorgeous, the convoluted, pretentious story, ponderous dialogue, and frankly, stupid (yes, stupid) Zen-bit at the end where Aronofsky is trying to achieve his own screen immortality alla Stanley Kubrick in 2001: A Space Odyssey fails miserably. And that is probably the best buzzline for this plodding, sorry film: miserable.
My rating 2 out of 10.
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The Fountain was good if somewhat trippy... an interesting crossover of religious/cultural/scientific ideals to say the least
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