The story seems original, but if you look closer, you can see that it is cliché and its visuals are no more than a slide show

Rating: 1/10 (26 June 2013)

The Fountain seems like a different film, it is a combination of past, present and future with different settings and stories. It is a hybrid movie, it has science fiction elements, it is a drama about a doctor and his ill wife, it is epic, there are Mad Max- like punk? tribes, it is a postmodern film, but none of those makes The Fountain a good film. The present story is the main story, it is the starting point, but this main story is very cliché that we saw even in some B movies! A doctor's wife is sick. He uses science to try to cure his wife who he loves. That's the story of the film. What a simple story! The worse thing is that this story doesn't go any further and we can't feel the romance or the pain either. Other than this, yes, as some other audiences said, the movie is extremely pretentious. The images, all those visual elements doesn't make any sense, instead it was like a long and very boring slide show. As a moviegoer, I very rarely call a movie boring, but The Fountain just pushed my limits. The images, some of those were beautiful, yes, but it is like all those images has not any supportive or enough background or emotion. It is called pretentious, right? This is not style over substance stuff, because there is not any real story for this feature length film, there are rather some ideas. I said the man who tries to save his wife is the brief story of the film, but it is more like a sum of ideas rather than a real, interesting story. Hugh Jackman doesn't fit his role, also he was not very good in this, Rachel Weisz was more adaptable than him, but both of them were literally missing in the movie. It seems that even they didn't believe the story, the movie. This film proves that all of the different time zones, different stories films are not good, just because it sounds or looks different. If you liked Moon, you will like The Fountain, there is no doubt about it! I couldn't like Moon either, because it was the same as The Fountain. No heart and soul. The Fountain has no heart and soul, no dramatic scene or twist. The movie's pseudo weightiness was over for me. This isn't high art for me, this isn't entertainment, this isn't a cinematic journey, this is something else, but I am sure about one thing, it was a zest-less experience.