Too ambitious

Rating: 6/10 (23 December 2012)

I guess this story is so complex, it belongs to a book - not a movie. I've been staring at great visuals. The storyline is...something. But it all feels insignificant. Just before I start to care about the character, I'm thrown into another era with the same characters dressed as someone else. I just makes me...not care. They seem to transcend death anyway so why bother?
Everything is presented at a level of perfection and in so much quantities. Epic is an understatement. What's left for the viewer to imagine?
I cannot escape the fact the animators are a team of designers with a mouse. They're not auteurs. They're not feeling anything as they animate. Great graphics. So what? The greatest animators put a ton of subtlety and personal feeling into their work. The world of Cloud Atlas just feels sterile.