unbelievable - is this from the same Darren Aronofsky?

Rating: 3/10 (28 June 2008)

I cannot believe that the gifted, original, strong, promising director who made 'Pi' and Requiem for a Dream' could make this confusing fantasy. After six years of directorial silence Darren Aronofsky is back with a combination of a New Age transcendental story and a Love Story (yes, that one) melodrama of a scientist confronted with the death of his dearest one. A script full of coincidences does not honor the career of Darren Aronofsky as a script writer either. The parallel lives story combines with mystic accents and worst of all, is filmed in a rosy video clip style with effects which seem to have been designed ten years before the last 'Star Wars' movies. Fair acting in the two principal roles cannot save the show. This was a real disappointment for me from a director I was expecting much more and who I still hope can do better in the future.