I should have walked out

Rating: 3/10 (15 November 2012)

I stayed. Others left early. They were right. I think the film was mostly an over-the-top personality feature for the leading actors, how versatile they -still- are. And the make-up artistry they did on them was notable.
But the rest and the overall was shallow and confusing, and ultimately: boring. One waits for a message, and waits for hours, but when something like a message comes at the end, it's unbelievably sugary and trivial. The final scene made me really cringe with shame.
I give three points because some of the acting was really good, notably Tom Hanks.
P.S. I was so upset about the film, and curious, I got me the book. And I like that better. I think the film has unnecessarily disrupted the longer story lines of the book, and thus has made the film quite incomprehensible for all who have not read the book before. And one other thing: I saw the film in the German language version, and that version is a complete disaster. It even fails to convey the political point of the "Sonmi 451" storyline, that she lives under a "Corpocracy" and that the only opposition to that is the "Union" aka "Trade Union". The German version does not realise the Trade Union angle, and so fails to make this story comprehensible and relevant.
I realise some films are made even worse through some of their different language versions. I think "Cloud Atlas" is one of them.