Exhausting.

Rating: 5/10 (27 October 2012)

Cloud Atlas is quite the exhausting film - Long, Boring and disconnecting. Most of the six stories are quite weak and the switch from one story to another is random as opposed to seamless.Some of the stories are weak and fail to capture any emotion.Like many adapted movies, many events in this movie remain unexplained, for example, the comet birthmark in all the characters. These stories weren't intertwined intelligently enough. Acting was good but left you feeling helpless with the amount of times each character appeared in a completely different form, gender, race etc.
Tom Hanks' Character's "new English" in the post apocalyptic world is almost undecipherable.Hence a lot of the message is completely lost during his narration.
This was a rather difficult book to adapt and the directors clearly showed that. Complicated is good till it crosses the threshold of comprehension. An audacious attempt but lacking in execution.Read the book instead!