An amazing story.

Rating: 9/10 (16 April 2013)

A film almost 3 hours in length can easily turn into a drag, not so with Cloud Atlas. I was - using a bit of a cliché - stuck from the first minute until the last.
What's so amazing is not how the stories are interwoven, since they are only lightly so. Instead it's the quick pacing, giving us sometimes a few minutes, sometimes only a few seconds from each and every story.
It's also a wonderful mix, from the comical with a failed publisher locked up in a nursing home to a criminal story straight out of the seventies to a dystopia set 200 years from now.
The actors - famous names most of them - are doing a good job, especially Halle Berry as the reporter and Ben Whishaw doing an amazing portrait of a homosexual composer fighting an uphill battle.
The only one feeling slightly misplaced from time to time was Hugo Weaving, not because he's a bad actor but because he to my generation will first and foremost always be the menacing Mr Smith from The Matrix trilogy.
I hope I will carry the same warm feeling if watching the film a second. If so it's very well deserved all the praise I above have given.