nice but weird

Rating: 6/10 (11 March 2013)

CLOUD ATLAS
Wow this is a confusing movie.
Visually it is a beautiful film. There are so many gorgeous scenes. Lovely colours and great effects. The only thing is, there are so many different stories in this movie and it goes on for so long that I just could not understand it all fully. I am not the only one I watched this film with 3 other people and all of us were the same. I recently watched an interview with the cast from the film, and they were asked if they could explain the movie to everyone, and all of them said that they couldn't explain it.
Speaking of the cast, it is very impressive. Tom Hanks is one of the main cast members Tom is one of my top 5 favourite actors. He has made so many great films, and this is good, but not up there with his best. Halle Berry is also in it. She does a great job. I find Halle to be a bit hit and miss. She is a great actress, but she has not got the best judgment in choosing movies. It also has Jim Broadbent in it. I know Jim from various TV shows and a couple of movies and I have to admit, this is his best role to date. Susan Sarandon also makes a couple of appearances. But he big surprise of the film has to be Hugh Grant I am not a big fan of his. He has made some good movies, but I don't really rate him as an actor. He has been typecast as a romcom actor and all of his films are very wet. But not in this film. He does a great job and it shows he can do other things other than romantic comedies. I know he was in Extreme Measures which was not a comedy, but he struggled through that. He looked so uncomfortable and out of his zone, but in Cloud Atlas he is awesome.
The film is on for nearly 3 hours another long movie. Why are all the films these days so long? What happened to the days where a film could be on for 80-90 minutes and that was good films do not need to be dragged out to 3 hours. This film does feel long too sometimes when I go and see a movie and it is a 3 hours epic, it doesn't feel that long and the time flies but not here. It felt very long. That is not necessarily a bad thing, I did enjoy the movie, I just didn't understand it. I could not explain the story to you sorry.
I will give this film a 6 out of 10...
Too long, very confusing but visually very nice and some great performances.
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