Brilliant is simply no enough.

Rating: 10/10 (17 January 2013)

"Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime﻿ and every kindness, we birth our future."
That sentence will wander in your brain for hours after you leave the cinema. But before I go deeper into reviewing Cloud atlas, let me congratulate the Wachowski's for the masterpiece they've filmed. Cause Cloud atlas is a masterpiece indeed. A masterpiece that provokes critics, audience and even the most blind-minded guy out there to talk about it. Be it good or bad, Cloud Atlas, provokes. And that's what all masterpieces of art do. Be it a book, a photograph, a movie or a picture.
The movie itself is an independandent movie, which makes Wachowski's accomplishment a whole lot bigger. Don't know if any of us can imagine what means to script/shoot and realize a movie that was labeled as "unfilmable" without any of the big fishes behind your back. Everithing seemed to be against Wachowski's and yet, they've done it.
The cast doesn't even need a comment to be honest. This is the final piece that shoots Cloud Atlas to the heights. I think that pretty much all of us here can agree that a movie with Halle Berry, Tom Hanks and Hugo Weaving each playing multiply roles in a single movie, simply CANNOT be bad.
While the movie doesn't have the typical story-telling structure, Cloud atlas is really easy to follow, and I keep failing to understand the people that state that the movie is impossible to follow. The six stories are bound together in the best way possible. It all makes sense if you give your brain a minute or two to understand what actually is this film about.
Now don't get me wrong... Im not saying that Cloud Atlas is a movie that everyone will understand. It's a movie that everyone MUST watch and just give it a chance... I know that it's not for everyone... Most of the people will even think it's boring or cliché or whatever, but for those that love movies like 12 monkeys, the Matrix, the 13th floor and even the epic Memento it will be an epic piece of art that they will forever remember.