This film is a slow moving load of metaphorical mush. The interesting movie implied/stated in the trailers is a complete lie when compared to the actual movie you see.

The plot from the trailers says it takes place across a thousand year span, from a Spanish conquestador seeking out the tree of life, to present day, to 500 years in the future, with the man and his true love living through all thousand of those years. Sounds interesting, right? Well, here's the actual plot. The parts taking place back in the past are actually scenes from the female lead's book she's writing, and the future scenes are not in the future but a metaphorical representation of what's taking lace in the male lead's head. The only thing really going on is the two leads, husband and wife; he's a biology researcher looking to cure brain tumors because his wife has one. It's a race against time to find the cure before she dies (he fails), a cure inspired by something off a tree from Central America. He discovers it can form a potion to reverse the aging process overnight, doesn't think to use it on his wife because it doesn't seem to shrink tumors right away (it eventually does, but by that time it's too late for him to use it on his wife), and we end up with one of those artificial choises that screne hakcs like posing: would you go for the cure to death or spend the last few minutes of your love's life with her? Me, the second the results came back about that monkey reversing in age I would take a sample and give it to her, knowing that tumors just take longer to affect (and I was right), leaving us with a story in which you get to have your cake and eat it too, iknstead of the artificial soppy ending they use.

I will give it credit for the visuals though; several beautiful looking backgrounds for the eyes, just a pity the artsy types involved in this film didn't realise you need a good story as well. Take away the false-past from her book (entitled "The Fountain" by the way) and take away the future-set metaphores (unneeded, seeing as how we know what's going on in his head from the present-tense scenes), and you basically have an episode of any given TV hospital drama, or at least most of one.

My recommendation? Stay home, watch an episode of ER.