Cloying, Tonally Shifty, and Deluded, The Fountain is Darren Arofonofsky at his most ambitious, and least concise.

Rating: 3/10 (24 April 2015)

It's a shame that The Fountain is a bad movie. Why? Because it's by a great director, has some amazing visuals, and sports some complex themes about death, mortality, love, and greed. Yet, the movie tries to do to much at once, and with it's overly convoluted timeline, the movie loses it's meaning in it's ambition, ultimately meaning nothing in the end. A good performance by Hugh Jackman is wasted, which is a shame. If you really have to see this movie, try to look at it from a filmmakers standpoint, as that will be interesting, but plot-wise, it's underwritten. Also, beyond its overstuffed themes, the film is at once dark and morose, and then suddenly ludicrously cheesy. The saccharine themes that pervade parts of this film really take away the power that the film could have if it wasn't for its many faults. Once again, this is a bad movie, an ambitious failure, interesting, but not interesting enough.