I really want to like what I'm seeing from Darren Aronofsky's hugely ambitious epic, Noah, but everything I've seen just fills me with doubt. The guy doesn't have a great track record with effects-heavy features (The Fountain was critically divisive and a box office dud), and this is a film considerably larger in both scope and budget than anything he's made before: isn't he just a director who seems a lot more comfortable with about $20 million in his pocket rather than $130 million? Though the game cast is hard to argue with, and some of the individual shots, lensed by Aronofsky's longtime cinematographer Matthew Libatique, look pretty fantastic, the requirement for a visual effects overload just might be the film's undoing. Can't make sense of the above picture? Me neither, and it looks even worse when things are moving: it's just an awkward mesh of blurry entities flying around, but then I am at the same time slightly grateful that Aronofsky didn't at least go for the 3D option.