Review – The Fountain

This depressing outing isn’t really the kind of movie a guy wants to watch in the wake of his wife’s recent hospital stay. A doctor (Hugh Jackman) desperately searches for a cure for cancer hoping to halt the progress of the brain tumor that’s killing his wife (Rachel Weisz). A South American tree may hold the solution to his problem. The tree is also at the root of two other subplots, one that sets the couple in Inquisition-and-conquistador-era Spain and the other that takes place in a sphere floating in limbo. Though the story doesn’t make a lot of sense, at least it’s pretty to look at. Mildly amusing