Quite possibly the single greatest movie ever made.

Rating: 10/10 (2 February 2008)

First, a caveat. If you are not a man, knock off a point. If you are not a man who has been desperately in love, knock off another. If those above statements do not apply to you, then this film wasn't for you. You may still enjoy it, find it beautiful, and rave about it, but this film was not for you.
This film was for me.
I remember telling my wife that there were no words in the English language to describe how much I loved her, but that I'd spend the rest of my life trying to show her. That is a true statement, but somehow The Fountain manages to describe that kind of love. The only reason I rated this movie a 10 was because that's as high as the scale goes. For me this film so far surpassed every other movie I'd ever seen that it's in an entirely different league.
I've always been a movie buff. I spent years in a video store watching everything on the shelves. I thought I'd seen every good movie ever made, and several that were great. The Fountain, however, touched me; not only like no other movie ever has, but like no other work of art in the history of mankind has. I wept, nearly start to finish. And that has never even come close to happening before.
The dialog and acting are rock solid. This will probably stand as the finest role of Jackman's career. And if the dialog seems a little over the top, then guess what, this film wasn't for you.
I'd rate this 1,000,000/10 if I could. Darren has done something in film that to my knowledge no other work of art ever has. He's shown us, in painstaking detail, the anatomy of Love.