Epic Movie, Just short of Masterpiece

Rating: 9/10 (27 October 2012)

Cloud Atlas. It takes a lot for me to get inspired about a film and to write a review. You've accomplished that much and I thank you. Forget everything you've heard about this film from critics or whoever.
All their lives are connected as ours. After the movie let out, we went to a restaurant in our home town 20 miles from the theater and met a middle aged couple who were at that same restaurant, who had just gotten out of the movie. Crazy Stuff and proves this movies relates to all of our lives.
Cloud Atlas is a modern day epic, that ties in the lives individuals reincarnated in different time periods. We follow the lives of an sick American who boards a ship to get cured of a disease and befriends a stowaway slave as they journey back to the US, A gay composer who works writing music for an old composer unable to write anymore. We follow a news reporter on a breakthrough discovery about corruption in energy, and a writer who must go into hiding in an retirement home to escape debtors after him. Finally this film takes us to a Korean future, where we follow a waitress who falls in love and could change life forever, in a Blade Runner esque utopia. Finally after the fall of civilization, something out of the dark ages, we follow the lives of a goat herder as he encounters other beings that change his world. And yes I am still talking about the same movie lol, The cinematography was beautiful on this film. The world the Wachowski brothers have made is a rich deep world, that you feel entrenched in and fall in love with it. The story was well written though if the film was a little longer and connected the stories better this would be a 10/10 for me. Tom Hanks and Halle Berry's acting was good in this film. With so many roles its hard to pick apart their acting. Ben Wishaw's and Jim Brodbent's highlighted the film with the best performances. The music was top notch, some of it composed by Tom Tyker and special effects were some of the best I've see ever. The themes of reincarnation, karma and so many other themes beautiful tie this film to our lives.
This movie is not something you can see once. To fully take in the symbolism, plot and characters you'll need a second viewing experience. And I'm OK with that. Because I believe years from now people will look at this film and remember it like a blade runner, or whatever movie it is.
Slightly flawed but overall amazing movie. Favorite Film of 2012 so far. 9/10