Review of The Fountain (2006) by David S — 22 Nov 2011
The Fountain is ambitious, imaginative, and visually stunning, but ultimately silly. It is difficult to find profoundness when it is so blatant in that regard. Nearly every scene is deliberately placed for an art-piece and made for a higher purpose, which in someway, is it's own demise.
Aronofsky does an okay job here, however he has strayed from the real, the believable and the genius story-weaving that is so perfectly shown in Requiem For a Dream and Black Swan. Jackman tries very hard here though misses the mark a bit, and Weisz struggles to stand out.
The Fountain is a movie one really wants to like, but it falls flat in regards to its miserable attempt at being intelligently touching.
This review of The Fountain (2006) was written by David S on 22 Nov 2011.
The Fountain has generally received positive reviews.
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