Tree of life with a fine print

Rating: 3/10 (11 August 2009)

I don't think it was one of the worst movies ever like some people posted but it was pretty bad. And for those who rush to say "you didn't get it" well, I'm sorry guys but I did! Religion is just a s..t load of cr.p to me and the creators of this film tried to make a co-operational s..t load of cr.p. They should have had their facts straight though. Like the fact that there is no "Shababa" like the character Tomas said. There is though: Shamballah which is the chief city of the Agharta, mythological land of advanced races and knowledge living at the center of the hollow earth (in Hollow Earth Theosophy); Shambhal is a place where one gets peace and security (hinduism); and also Shambhala which is a mythical kingdom hidden somewhere in Tibet (buddhism). I suppose Thomas and Izzi were (are) hindu and Tom had so much peace and security that he just spelled wrong the name of the place he was going. Moving on.
When Adam and Eve were exiled from heaven it was indeed to keep them away from the tree of life. But in the new testament Jesus said that he came to give us the gift of the previously mentioned tree. Don't ask me the exact quotation, chapter, verse etc, I'm not one of those who actually memorizes this cr.ap and I no longer keep a copy of the bible in my house. I suppose this is the Jewish part of the film (kind of a back door, don't you think?!). In all fairness I should say that christians ignore this message from Jesus as well although, one would think, it's pretty damn important. The franciscans or the catholic inquisition in the film also didn't think it was of any importance as well.
Finally let's analyze how the creators of the film see the tree of life. For the hindu Tom it's his love and a ladder to "Shababa". For the scientist Tom it's the source for curing death thus saving Izzi. And for the Spanish Tom it is also the source for eternal life but with a fine print: TREE OF LIFE, DRINK FROM IT AND YOU WILL HAVE IMMORTALITY!!! fine print: immortality as a tree.
Now, I don't believe in religion of any kind and it's not like I don't know anything about it and don't believe. And I can appreciate a good film which has little or more religious fiction using facts as foundation (even if I don't think there are many actual facts when it comes to religion I can accept them as such when they are used to drive a plot- like "Stigmata" which is a great film in my opinion). But this film is dumb to its foundation. It just says the same sh.t every religion says: that death is the path to something else. And the reason why this is so incredibly dumb (leaving aside all the false knowledge) is that it replaces things like heaven, another life, Shambhala etc with Shababa and AWE. Are you kiddin' me?!!! A 3/10 from me.