Lacks a culmination

Rating: 5/10 (24 August 2014)

Cloud Atlas is actually 6 movies in one movie. The concept is to tie the stories criss-cross. The 6 stories is actually quite interesting, but I think that the ties are few and unimportant, and in some cases even non-existing. The 6 stories could almost without problems be split up into 6 separate short-films at 20-25 minutes each. I watch the entire film, looking for some kind of culmination, a climax, a conclusion. But the movie didn't gives any. All in all, 6 quite interesting stories. But they jump too much between them, to indicate some kind of bond, that, in my opinion, don't exist. You could watch the 6 stories separately, since it seems quite unimportant to show and bind them together. And you really never feel connected to any of the characters, because you never really get a change to know them. And when you feel you are about to know them, they jump to the next story.