Divine Intervention Needed Here - What The Heck Is This?

Rating: 2/10 (16 June 2013)

Cloud Atlas is like one of those "know it all's" we all put up with, who beats you over the head with the most intimate knowledge of the most arcane subjects. Roughly 5 or 6 story lines are running in this movie that appear in different times, different characters (but the same actors in different makeup, etc) and different unrelated plots. I got a headache trying to figure out how to tie this mess together. If they would have just did an entire movie about the Tech Seoul story plot the movie would have been a great science fiction movie. I've come to appreciate the fact that strange titles make for ugly movies. The producers, writers, directors etc seem to delight in making idiots out of the viewers of this film. In fact, what the writers, producers etc have accomplished is to put together an incoherent, pretentious two hour long piece of claptrap. I do not recommend seeing this movie. It has no redeeming qualities whatsoever. I'm a big believer in movie makers taking thought out risks in producing films for the sake of advancing the art. This movie apparently was produced to shame the critics into calling Cloud Atlas a masterpiece because deep down the critics, like everyone else, don't have a clue what this movie is about, if indeed it was about anything.