Writer-director Darren Aronofsky's years-in-the-making sci-fi, which unfolds simultaneously in 16th-century Spain and Central America, the 21st-century United States and 26th-century space, is an intoxicatingly beautiful but painfully simplistic fable about love and death. All three segments revolve around Thomas (Hugh Jackman) and his doomed beloved. In the past, he's a conquistador in love with Queen Isabel (Rachel Weisz), who's been accused of heresy by a vicious inquisitor (Stephen McHattie). She dispatches Thomas to find the Fountain of Youth, which a renegade priest (Mark Margolis) believes he's located in a ruined Mayan temple consecrated to a vast tree whose ...
Released:
2006
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
96 mins