My wife and I just got done watching "The Fountain" with Hugh Jackman and Rachel Weisz. When I say that this may be the longest 96 minutes of your life that you'll never get back, take that as a word of warning. This was probably the most boring mishmash of Buddhist, Hindu, Zen transcendental, Maharishi Mugawump nonsense to come out in the last 10 years.
The first minute of the movie drags on mercilessly for an excruciating 10 minutes. Scenes are repeated ad nauseum time and again. Hugh Jackman spends half the movie sobbing and kissing a tree inside of a giant bubble. It jumps schizophrenically between Zen meditation, the Spanish Inquisition (No one expects the Spanish Inquisition!), Mayan mythology, the present day, then goes backwards and forwards with absolutely no rhyme or reason. Oh, and you know those movies that, after the big climax, and you think the movie is winding down, but it keeps going for another half-hour to 45 minutes? This was one of those movies.
So heed this warning. If you don't want to waste 96 minutes of your life, leave "The Fountain" on the shelf.
