Exceedingly bad

Rating: 1/10 (27 August 2009)

The only thing good about this movie is Hugh Jackman. There was no hook in the story from the very beginning, which makes one say the writing was awful. It was awful throughout; too intellectual, not enough emotion, no emotional core to the film, but apparently that's Aronovsky. Maybe he'll do better with Robocop, which might be more for him, after all. Sad to say after Requiem.
Apparently not a good idea to make a large Sci-fi film for 35 million with stars. This film should have never been made. Bad effects, bad cinematography (a surprise actually), and terrible production design because everything looks phony including the colors in the frame. I understood the hubris part on the part of the main character at the resolution after trying to conquer death the entire film, but after being bored on the verge of pain for the entire film it is an intellectual insight that can hardly make the film worth it. It's like a long, boring, painful trek up a mountain that when you get to the top you discover that, in fact, look, the sun does set in the west. Amazingly bad pretentious painful movie, oh sorry, film.