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Rating: 2/10 (24 July 2013)

I gave this flick 2, mainly because the makeup and acting is good. There are a couple of interesting scenes where a spaceship? - lands/glides over the water. And of course the visions of a future world, but that is the full extent of any flicker of SF content, as it certainly isn't in the storyline. I watched this mainly for the Science Fiction story it claimed to be - I want my money back! I know SF when I see it, and this is not it. Cloud Atlas seems to be promoting re-incarnation, and how one should be okay to sacrifice your life for an idea... wait for it... because you'll be reincarnated, AND be with your one true love. Why that is true, I don't know - it might, but it is not found anywhere in this movie. Oh yeah, right at the end our heroine say it is so it must be true. Give me a break. Where's the effin story? Why did she believe this crap. Half-way through I was thinking this movie looks like a promotion for radical Islam; if you don't like it blow it up or die trying. (apologies to the radicals, thats normal Islam) Don't expect you'll figure that out by watching it, it just isn't there.
Lastly, the cutting back and forth was poorly done, not brilliantly done as in 'Crash', the movie this one was trying emulate edit-wise. It had all the finesse of a blender. I expect movies to entertain, and even violent SF ones like 'Blade Runner' are re-watchable because it has an incredible story. CA was not entertaining as a whole, it had some enjoyable parts, but they are not worth a 3 hour painful effort to see again.