If you "didn't get it", it means you are intelligent.

Rating: 1/10 (24 October 2010)

I registered an account just to write a review of this movie. It is bad bad bad bad BAD.
This movie is NOT "brilliant", nor "deep", nor "soulful", nor "romantic". It certainly tries to be all of those things, and for the supremely ignorant it will no doubt succeed. But for anyone who knows anything about religion, particularly Eastern religions, it will only be a trite and never-ending bunch of nonsense. Just because you throw in some Buddhist symbology and meditation doesn't make a movie deep, especially when you use it the wrong way. Meditation is done to ESCAPE longing and desire. In real life, Wolverine would have thrown the ring away, not put it on his finger. The scene of him meditating in the air in the Mayan temple was especially absurd. As if this wasn't enough, the director decided to throw in some pseudo-Christianity and Mayan "First Father", finally reaching the Holy Grail of utter nonsense. And God moved the Tree of Life from the Garden of Eden to the top of a hidden Mayan Temple. Apparently God left afterward, because there is no chance of redemption and meeting on distant shores, only floating in space hallucinating with a dead tree.
Besides this, the "love" between Wolverine and Izzy was almost imperceptible. And understandably so: Izzy is a moron who can't ever stop babbling about the Mayans and the magic star and blah blah blah. She can, however, write a book that contains just as much nonsense, and which Wolverine finishes when he is not meditating in space, tattooing himself, or fighting for "Spain". The best part of the movie is when Izzy finally dies, because 1) she stops talking, and 2) you know the movie can't possibly go on much longer, but mostly 1).
This movie sucks. Requiem was a powerful and memorable movie; The Fountain makes you feel like Darren Aronofsky hates you personally. I would rather be stuck in a space-bound bubble with a dead tree for eternity than endure another showing of this awful movie.