Review of Cloud Atlas (2012) by Mr N — 06 Feb 2016

Cloud atlas shrugged -.

A good idea was totally messed up here.

With a cast that is probably hard to surpass in its prominence.

And also the trailer of Cloud Atlas is most probably the BEST TRAILER ever.

Really! With this super-120% -film-ad-bait you just have to run to the box-office without ever hesitating.

For this trailer does its job perfectly. Luckily I had the DVD borrowed from the local library for free. Thus, I am just a lil angry about the successful trailer rip-off and wasted lifetime.

If the 7 layers of time somehow do connect with each other, then I can not see anything of it. The whole acts as 7 short films that have nothing to do with one another except identical imagery. Likewise I felt no sympathy for any of the individuals, which is also not quite surprising if you deal with 7 different short stories...

When two such different directing-philosophies as Tykwer and the Wachowski bros. co-direct a film project, perhaps such a film, no matter how visually overwhelming it may be, ultimately must fail in the end, because multiple cooks often spoil the meal, don't they?

And if I must watch it at least 3-4 times to understand only one iota more in return, then I'm certainly out of here.

I thought it was quite bad, but would rate it probably like 2 stars, because of the brilliant visual composition of the scenes...because they are really fantastic.

Rating = 35%.

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