- Hugh Jackman ("X-Men") is a fine actor and he's gorgeous, although there are no "money shots" here...sorry.
- The camera loves Rachel ("About a Boy") Weisz's face and she is a highly capable actor. (This movie was directed by her husband, Darren Aronofsky ("Requiem for a Dream".)
- Ellen Burstyn ("Spitfire Grill") is holding up well.
- Too many fluids - tears, spit, snot, puddles, ponds, blood, surgical cleansers, tree sap, have I missed anything?
- Too arcane, muddled, incomprehensible, and "woo woo."
- No clear narrative - just Hugh Jackman looking terribly concerned ...most the time.
- If it wasn't a doleful string quartet playing chamber music, it was a New Age orchestra going nowhere.
- Too much CGI - too many patterns of bright light ebbing and flowing.
- Terrible sound - most dialogue is whispered, thus muttered, distorted, and indecipherable.
- No captions - without which there is no way to understand the complicated story.
- Hugh Jackman periodically shows up floating in a bubble, bald, serene, and in a full lotus position.
- The sap from the Tree of Life causes flowers to pop from the ground.
- When ingested, those same flowers erupt from one's torso, ala "Alien," then from the mouth, nose and eyes.
Any questions?
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