Too many things going on

Rating: 2/10 (21 February 2014)

"Cloud Atlas" is a very complicated movie. From what I gathered, it's about how people are connected over the centuries and how one action can be related to another. Of course it's not a light movie for a tranquil night, but a film that gives you lot to think about. Unfortunately, Cloud Atlas had too much to tell, that in the end it was very tiring. The length of the movie was too big, understandable though if you consider the number of the stories that had to be presented to the audience. However, I truly believe that if the stories were less in number, the final result would have been better, as it is not a book so that can last longer than three hours. The jumping from one story to the other was confusing, as you were trying to grasp the one you were introduce to the other. The characters were changing as well from one time period to another, so it was hard to comprehend them. Some of the stories were quite entertaining, like the one taking place at 2012 or the other on the boat. However I found the blood on the scenes too much, like an exaggeration on the violence that obviously the audience could make out from the general idea without the additional bloodshed. The performances were good, but that is expected from famous actors and actresses. All in all, Cloud Atlas seemed to me unable to pass through the massage that was intended to give, but ended up being a mass of different movies, that the only entertaining part was to find which actor played which.