Gorgeous and thought-provoking. A tremendous film.

Rating: 9/10 (8 May 2010)

I was going to write a full-blown review about how intelligent this film is. I was going to rave about its glorious visual aesthetics, its existential themes, and its cogent questioning of human nature. But I think the following quote will suffice.
SCENE: Imagine the stark, but magnificent, surface of Mars, with its red mountains and canyons that dwarf by far any mountains and canyons on Earth. A young woman pleads pleads to her former superhuman lover to return to Earth and save humankind.
LAURIE: Jon, please, you have to stop this. Or everyone will die.
JON: And the Universe will not even notice. In my opinion, the existence of life is a highly overrated phenomenon. Just look around you. Mars gets along perfectly well without so much as a microorganism. Here it's a constantly changing topographical map, flowing and shifting around the pole in ripples 10,000 years wide. So tell me, how would all of this be greatly improved by an oil pipeline? By a shopping mall?