There's nothing to "get" -- Not "mind blowing" -- Just a waste of time

Rating: 1/10 (28 November 2006)

I loved Donnie Darko, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, 2001 Space Odyssey -- all entertaining and thought-provoking. The Fountain was not entertaining, and the only thought it provoked was "How did this get a 7.8 rating on IMDb(as of this writing) and why didn't we leave the theater half an hour into the movie like the three people behind us?" Contrasting modern characters against characters from 16th Century Spain, and then throwing in a bunch of Zen and psychedelic imagery does not make the movie "deep." Nor does it make up for a shoddy, disconnected plot. There certainly are profound ways to deal with the concepts of our attachments in life and our attachment to life -- but this movie failed to do so.
I really wanted to like this movie, but it's one of the worst I've seen in a while.