Cloud Subplots.

Rating: 9/10 (24 September 2015)

Cloud Atlas (2012): Dir: Tom Tykwer, Andy Wachowski, Larry Wachowski / Cast: Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Jim Broadbent, Hugo Weaving, Hugh Grant: Tom Tykwer and the Wachowski brothers unite to create an epic film about connection. It is a complicated film that spans about four centuries and features six interlinking stories where various actors are done up in heavy makeup and playing multiple roles. This is all visually spectacular with its futuristic outlook and flying cars and skyscrapers. Tom Hanks is featured as a villager whose village is threatened by bandits. He also plays an evil doctor seeking a treasure owned by someone who is tasking to eliminate slavery. Halle Berry is featured as a journalist who is run off the road by those whom she is out to expose, and survives. She also plays an alien like creature whom the villager Hanks plays assists in a travel in return for her curing his daughter of a dreaded disease. Jim Broadbent has a more comical role as a publisher locked in an old age home by his brother. He owes money to some heavies and this is his unfortunate hideout. Hugo Weaving plays many of the villain roles as he did in the Wachowski brothers Matrix films. We even get an amusing role of him in drag as a nasty nurse. Hugh Grant also appears in multiple roles including one where he is unrecognizable. Viewers are advised to pay close attention but the film is never boring. Everyone of these six stories could make for a movie of their own but at least it never becomes clouded over with confusion and draws on what connects us all together. Score: 9 / 10