Finally something good.

Rating: Null/10 (15 March 2008)

The best, and certainly the most inventive, movie since "The Machinist" and "Possible Worlds". Three very rare gems in this very weak movie decade.
The unique blend of sci-fi and she's-dying-of-cancer disease-of-the-week schmaltz may seem like an absurd and undoable mix, but Aronofsky has made those two gel perfectly. I love sci-fi and absolutely detest "disease(d) melodramas", so even more power to him for managing to pull this off in such a way that I am not only prevented from writing yet another hateful diatribe, but actually only have good things to say about a movie.
Visually slick, the movie constantly jumps between three vastly different periods and settings. This will put off the more brainless among ye, plus the fact that everything is not spelled out for the viewers. I.e. there is a sufficient amount of free-to-interpret aspects which is the way I like it with any story that goes beyond the traditional themes and structures. For example, it isn't quite clear whether the bald, futuristic Jackman is the 21st-century scientist many centuries older (and "cured" from death) or a different person, merely representing yet another resurrected male half of the ill-fated couple.
It's commendable that Aronofsky has gone back to creating intelligent movies like "Pi". "Requiem For A Dream" was a trite drug-user-drama piece of Dreck which I thought might be signaling his very early fall from grace. (The fact that IMDb-ers consider it the best Aronofsky film says it all.) I'm glad I was wrong, because it seems that besides him and a handful of others there are no high-quality writer-directors around at present. This is an age in which a nepotistic, incompetent boor like Sofia Coppola is considered to be a brilliant "auteur". But then again, the best of any age were usually underrated, overlooked or almost totally ignored.
TF is one of those rare movies that stick in your mind, force you to think about it long after the end-credits roll, which is always refreshing.
At the start I thought that the soundtrack wasn't good enough, but by the time the movie ends, the music kind of grows on you.
The only slight criticism I could make is Weisz's casting. She looks rather boyish, i.e. not feminine enough, especially with the short hair. Picking out a true beauty would have been better.