Cloud Atlas

2012 "Everything is Connected"
7.4| 2h52m| R| en| More Info
Released: 26 October 2012 Released
Producted By: X Filme Creative Pool
Country: United States of America
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Official Website: http://cloudatlas.warnerbros.com/
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A set of six nested stories spanning time between the 19th century and a distant post-apocalyptic future. Cloud Atlas explores how the actions and consequences of individual lives impact one another throughout the past, the present and the future. Action, mystery and romance weave through the story as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero and a single act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution in the distant future. Based on the award winning novel by David Mitchell. Directed by Tom Tykwer and the Wachowskis.

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Michael Ledo This is one film most people will love or won't watch the whole thing. The stories concern reincarnation of the soul (?) although it goes far beyond that. The same half dozen or so people in one life are connected in similar ways in different lives. And a person who gets a scar or mark in the future, will have that mark show up in the past as a birthmark. Clearly this film goes way beyond any simplistic idea of reincarnation and makes it into a cult doctrine.There are 6 separate tales, although the film seems to concentrate on the two future stories. "Souls" are connected by generally having the same people play different parts, or by connecting them through aforesaid mark. The beginning of the film was confusing as it presents the ending of the various lives.The lives of these people are not simple. They are filled with trauma, killing, and intrigue. Scenes are connected by showing people doing similar things in different life times such as passing through a door, i.e. the so called "smart" and "clever" aspect of the movie.Rather than asks questions about truth and free will, the movie gives you David Mitchell's answers, which you may or may not agree with. For those who believe in some universal bond that links lives past and present to the seemingly inane point that things that will happen in the future will effect the past, you should enjoy this film for a full 5 stars. For me the film was too artsy, telling stories in a disjointed fashion that lacked depth and meaning to my life.I would wait for the DVD to see this film as there are things that are easily missed and will need multiple viewings to grasp.If they really wanted to make their case, they should have named Tom Hanks "Wilson" as an island dweller.Parental Guide: F-bomb, sex, nudity.
bielleiteb The movie is about different time lines that are connected in a way, by consequences, it show us how little things can change a lot and how some acts ,no matter how small, can inspire big things like a revolution or a rebellion. The movie indeed is good and it can be a bit confusing at the beginning, but that is not a bad thing but a good thing because it makes we think about the things that are happening at the film and think in some explanations to these events, but this felling just show up in some moments like the beginning and the mid-ending of the movie. The bad things is that the movie doesn't give us much detail about the background of each time line , it doesn't explain why somethings are happening , and why and how things happened to the world and to the humanity at the future
Evan Wessman (CinematicInceptions) This is a movie that I hope gets re-made someday. It's a really cool premise, and it wasn't exactly executed badly here, but I definitely felt like there was something lacking in it. I turned Mr. Nobody off in the first 20 minutes because I got the sense that it, like Cloud Atlas was going to get a little too caught up in the novelty of its premise and not actually do something interesting with it. This movie is trying to make a pretty interesting, deep, existential point about life. The premise I think is a bit more appealing as a movie premise to Western cultures because we, for the most part, do not believe in reincarnation. It seemed like the whole point of the movie was that our actions can have an impact on people that live long after us, which I definitely believe in and I don't think a lot of people could argue against it that strongly. However, I didn't see that any of the storylines actually connected in a meaningful way. It just seemed like all the characters got re-incarnated as someone else in each situation and you had to just play a "match the face" game with each story line. Also, they all seemed to be reincarnated as the same type of character each time. Now, I don't know much about what some Eastern religions believe about reincarnation, but the way I understand it, your starting point in one life is based on what you did in your previous life and you're supposed to try to do better each time around. I'd like to think that we change enough over one lifetime that we'd be unrecognizable from one life to the next; in other words, I'm saying the casting choices of this movie are not true to life even if they are cinematic and interesting.I think there was also not really enough attention given to each storyline and they were a little too complicated to keep track of all of them. Say you have 30 minutes for each different story, you can't expect the audience to know where each one is at. That works for TV shows sometimes, but even then it's can get confusing. I didn't really care enough about each story to be invested in any of them, which I think indicates that they bit off a little more than they could chew. Also, the two futuristic stories felt kind of ridiculous, especially the language of the people in the future Hawaii. That was nothing short of annoying. It also seemed that those two were the only ones that were connected in any kind of meaningful way, which is another weak point for the story. So I'm just going to suggest two ideas for how this could be re-made or at least tweaked in concept. One is a version where it follows one person over several different lifetimes, even though something tells me that's been done before. The other is a version that connects a few people from different times that are more directly connected, sort of like Interstellar or X-Men Days of Future Past. I think it would be possible and really cool to show two connected stories in parallel where the actions of the past person were directly influencing the events of the future person's life. The only person I would trust to turn this exact concept into a story that would fulfill its potential is Christopher Nolan because he has mastered using non-linear storytelling and has proven that he can blend concepts of time and human emotion/connection really well.I would recommend this lightly. It's not bad, but its not as good as its premise sounds. I wouldn't try to keep track of everything because it won't really make it a better experience for you or anything like that. Basically, it's a cool enough premise that is well-paced enough to keep your attention and make you think a little, but it's not nearly as good as it could be. Overall Rating: 7.4/10.
ls-73420 Cloud Atlas has an extremely ambitious idea for a movie at its core, it tells different stories across three different time periods, Past, Present and Future, with the cast playing many characters.While the movie boasts some interesting ideas and concepts, some of those ideas were not fully realized, the script its kind of a mess.The movie fails in delivering a cohesive storyline, this stories would work better if they were short movies however in a full length movie it didn´t work quite that well.sometimes it was like i was watching different movies whenever the stories cut between them , but Cloud Atlas also has is positive aspects most of the cast is good and the cinematography is beautiful, there are some great shots in here, the production design and the costumes are also worth mention as well as the soundtrack, the Cloud Atlas Sextet is terrific. By the end Cloud Atlas ends up being a reasonable movie, although it has some good aspects they are not enough to pass its flaws.6.5/10