Cloud Atlas

Its too-muchness is also the source of its power; I was absolutely never bored, and felt surprised when the movie ended. It's an amazing, baffling, thrilling and (for many, it would appear) irritating experience, and for my money the most beautiful and distinctive big-screen vision of the year.

As is often the peril with movies of giant ambition, Cloud Atlas walks a crooked line between the glorious and the ridiculous.

While Tom Tykwer, Andy Wachowski and Lana Wachowski haven't necessarily expanded on Mitchell's book, they've done a superlative job making it legible onscreen. Cloud Atlas deserves praise if only for not being the baggy, pretentious disaster it could have been in other hands.

One has to ask: does it allow for immersion? Even as we applaud the dramatic machinery, are we being kept emotionally at bay? [29 Oct. & 5 Nov. 2012, p.128]

A tale that ought to dispel the clouds of mystery surrounding life gathers them into impenetrable fog.

Each segment feels more like an extended trailer for itself than a sound narrative unit. Maybe this incompletion is purposeful, but it's a problem when what's invariably elided or taken for granted is the very human connection and commiseration that is supposedly the most vital force in the universe.

A manifesto in the form of an enormously budgeted quasi-sci-fi epic, Cloud Atlas is evidently personal, defiantly sincere, totally lacking in self-awareness, and borderline offensive in its gleeful endorsement of revenge violence against anyone who gets in the way of a good person's self-actualization. The rest of the time, it's just insipid, TV-esque in its limited visual imagination, and dramatically incoherent.

Honestly a fantastic work of art. They shot for a new experience and really hit the nail on the head. I waited until 2019 before I saw this and I was both upset and excited I did so. Dom tlet these other reviews put you off.. They are probably just too ignorant to follow the story. They are looking for something familiar something easy to watch that they can mind half pay attention to and then go write a review. That being said this movie might come off as confusing if you are looking for massive interwoven connections from time period to time period. We'll there really isn't any other than it's kind of like a genetic line passes down which leads to things in the future happening because of and in some cases the same way they did before. That's it really. The stories are similar and the similarities are shown to you when it's relevant. People say the stories didn't come together at the end and they are simply 100% wrong. They stories are absolutely connected in both theme and causality. Just because they were too bored to watch with attention to detail they shouldn't have even reviewed it. So just go into this with an open mind and don't expect some big twist that's going to blow your mind.. This is a story that is about the journey and the journey is beautiful. It's an absolute masterpiece.

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Like six movies muscled into one, Cloud Atlas is a raw, dense, ambitious mash of tangled wires and blinking lights. Needless to say, the film must be seen more than once to fully comprehend, and even then it's a nut that demands a viewer's complete concentration to crack. It's a mosaic, stitching vastly different subjects, atmospheres, landscapes and circumstances into the same cloth with mixed results. Things are so breakneck that, even at three unusually long hours, I felt like I was missing large swaths of story, merely scratching the surface of what was actually going on. The editing is partly to blame for that, with its dizzying leaps across generations (which, in some instances, occur several times in a single scene), and the heavy makeup effects - employed to cast the same actors in several roles, genders, ages and nationalities - are often a major distraction. For a film as loaded as this one, even a momentary pause to identify a vaguely-familiar face can tangle the feet, leaving us helplessly adrift in a sea of themes and imagery. It alternates between stunning and baffling in the blink of an eye, an experience that's both confounding and mesmerizing to behold. Kudos to the filmmakers for daring to try something so thoroughly different. It's magical on the rare occasions it all comes together and works as a single, monumental behemoth, but is also plagued by a swarm of ticks and shortcomings. I wonder if the time and effort necessary to actually access its thematic riches might be a steeper cost than many viewers are willing to pay. A complicated picture, both to ingest and to rate. Today's score may be subject to change.

The film is based on the idea that separate events in different historical periods can be causally connected. Adaptive transactions within evolution may be similar at different times, but causality between them has not been scientifically proven. For the viewer who does not believe in magical reality, the film is only a depiction of some stories - nothing more.

The movie looks great, that's the end of anything nice I have to say for it. I'm not sure why someone decided to make a movie that was four or five other movies cut together, but it seems like a failed experiment. Fortunately none of the stories was particularly deep or original, so the jumping around wasn't enough to make it confusing once you got a handle on which story was which. The story never really comes together with each story existing more or less independent of the others. I stuck through it till the end hoping there would be some grand revelation that made smashing the films together make sense but this revelation never materializes. There's a strong political and social message about moving past social expectations when they are evil, slavery bad, hating homosexuals bad, ignoring psychics bad(wait, what?), taking advantage of the weak bad. Unfortunately, it's about as banal as any of the other individual plots that it almost makes me wonder how awful the writer must be for them to think everyone in the world needs this sort of reminder. The film isn't for children either, so I really can't grasp the purpose for hammering on such a dull moral.