Everything is connected....GEEZ

Rating: 1/10 (25 December 2012)

"Everything is connected"
Here I thought that this story is along the likes of Crash etc where it is different stories that intertwine, in the end making sense of it all.
But the only thing that Cloud Atlas did was (to me) present different stories that is perfectly edited together. Yes...EDITED together, that does not relate nor reveal anything at all. It is just different stories being spliced together and held under the same banner with a narrative that preaches that things are connected. The past, present, future, so on so forth, even when we die, every kindness, every crime is interrelated to the other.
What a load of garbage.
Best analogy is that, we can have a movie with the tagline "Every movie is connected". We just have to take Dances with Wolves, Pocahontas, and Avatar and edit them along their similar setups in between one another, and add a narrative that forces them to relate, and we will just as well have a complete story.
This is just a time waster if you have three hours to waste. It is just different stories with the same cast presented in different roles which have nothing to do with the previous character incarnations that they had played. What a waste....