"The Fountain" is too confusing!

Rating: 3/10 (28 November 2006)

Everyone has a right to their opinions of course but for the life of me, I can't understand all the enthusiastic reviews this movie has received on here. I love sci-fi adventures, enjoy a good romance and don't mind having to actually use my brain to help figure out the twists and turns of a good movie but...."The Fountain" was way "too far out there" for me!
First the good news: "The Fountain" is a romance, sci-fi and action/adventure movie all rolled into one! Now the bad news: "The Fountain" doesn't do any of these very well. More good news: the cinematography (A+), costumes (B+) and acting (B) are all pretty good and deserve high grades. Unfortunately, I thought the biggest drawback of this movie was, very simply, the screenplay (D). It was way too confusing for me, my date (and we are actually rather intelligent people!) and it seemed, most of the viewing audience. When the movie ended, we all seemed to look at each other with a confused look on our face, shrug our shoulders and say "What the heck was that about?"
I followed the general gist of the plot...(without giving away too much info)... Man searches for The Fountain of Youth throughout time and space to try to preserve his and his love's life. OK, easy enough but was the whole story really happening or was it only his reading of his wife's novel? And as I was debating this in my mind I realized one important thing...that I didn't really care. The story never grabbed me, sucked me into its characters and into its life. It never made me care.
And the final straw for me and my sweety was this...what the heck was with "Hugh-Jackman-in-the-future" floating in that stupid bubble?? I kept hoping it would burst and put an end to this weird movie that in the initial 15 minutes had burst for me. Ugh...stay home, rent "Somewhere in Time" and make some popcorn!