An ambitious film that reaches and mostly succeeds.

Rating: 9/10 (26 June 2017)

It's hard to imagine a more difficult movie to make than one that spans centuries, races, and the very limits of human consciousness. However, Cloud Atlas is a phenomenal success. Despite its length (or maybe because of it), it manages to weave a number of very different stories into a single, spell-binding story of humanity itself. It is hilarious and terrifying, inspiring and profoundly horrifying. The music adds to the atmosphere too.
Some of the movie's ideas like the language spoken in the post- apocalyptic scenes, some of the makeup choices, and the quantum mumbo jumbo were perhaps not as good an idea as others though. It fits many of the not-so-nice clichés of the post-apocalyptic genre as well.
I have been a big fan of similar Wachowski projects like Sense8, and Cloud Atlas is similar in theme and tone. My main source of frustration about this movie is the fact that I waited five years to see it!
(I saw this on June 26, 2017)