In The Defense of Cloud Atlas

Rating: 9/10 (23 February 2014)

A great piece made buy two of the most high rated directors "the wachowskis". The film is brilliant but it does have few blunders.It starts with a very special but also confusing opening title, and it ends while giving you the same feeling, feeling lost in the middle of a massacre, chaos, like a meaningless dog chasing its own tail trying to teach you something but won't, which only causes more and more confusion.
The reason that people think that this movie is worthless, is because they have gotten lazy, intending not to think, not to solve riddles by themselves.
If movies are puzzles, the society wants to see the puzzles solve by themselves, which most movie are like this these days. But Cloud Atlas is much more different. In case of puzzles, this film gives you the pieces but wants you to put them together buy yourself, using very intense and masterclass dialogue the film gives you clues on how to solve the puzzle, which requires thinking and sharpness. Also, there are some unbelievably great performances, especially form Tom Hanks, Hugo weaving, Helle Berry and Ben Whishaw.
Indeed, its a mess but has a pattern to it, and you have to find it yourself. the movie is not a masterpiece (but its very close to one) because I believe "the Wachowskis" were focusing too much on the details that they forgot about some very very basic parts that every movie has.
So, if you are about to watch Cloud Atlas for first time, make sure you paying enough attention while watching, if you don't you'll get lost.