Shallow new age pap

Rating: 4/10 (4 April 2015)

Darren "Artsy Fartsy" Aronofsky's 'The Fountain' is a visually impressive, but intellectually shallow and narratively muddled new agey metaphysical cinematic treatise on death. Though his passion for the subject matter is evident, said passion isn't enough to overcome the film's many flaws.
Hugh Jackman clearly seems to share Aronofsky's belief in the material, but he feels way out of his depth here. Not much is asked of the incomparably beautiful Rachel Weisz save for looking ethereal, and she at least pulls this off. The rest of the cast and their characters make absolutely no impression, buried as they are under a pile of pretentious new age mumbo jumbo.