A movie about life everlasting that makes you wish you were dead

Rating: 1/10 (9 February 2010)

I'm having a hard time memorizing all the names of the reviewers here that think this is a wonderful movie, so I can avoid anything they recommend.
The Fountain is one of the worst films I've ever seen. It could have been made by a blissed out religious cultist whose brain keeps clicking back to the preceding thought like a broken record. There's Izzi and her other incarnations smiling beatifically, crying soulfully. There she is again, and again and again doing the same thing. There is Tommy puzzled, smiling, crying, angry, and there he is again, and again and again. I'm sure I've seen this scene before and before that and before that. What a long dragged out boring piece of pretentious pseudo spiritual garbage it is.
The special effects are nice to look at but also repeated ad nauseum. The musical score is decent and that's it. Hugh Jackman is a good actor but not here. Rachel Weisz isn't a good actress and is even worse here. I guess you can blame the writer and director for this, and the constant close ups and extreme closeups. I couldn't believe that Aranofsky, who made this bomb, also made The Wrestler. He didn't write The Wrestler so that explains some of the difference, but he directed and I guess he just improved greatly as a director in the two year interval between the films.
The Fountain is an embarrassment for all involved.