I really expected better from Tom Hanks. I'm Disappointed.

Rating: 4/10 (15 August 2013)

Before I watched this movie I was very excited. I thought it would be allot better than it was. I thought it was too long. They tried too hard to make it mysterious. After watching the movie I felt nothing. I was expecting to be mesmerized, but instead I was disappointed. It seemed to me like the writers had tried too hard to make it seem mysterious. The overall effect backfired in my opinion. It looks as though they didn't know what they were doing or possibly wrote the script in one day. I suppose with better writers, or writing, it could have been a major hit. Another thing I had a problem with was the character makeup that was used to make them look different. To me it made them look ridiculous. I thought the facial features were over dramatized and looked completely goofy. In turn this made it look unbelievable and was yet another flaw. I decided to watch this movie again to see if I liked it better the second time around, but again I was disappointed. I usually love science fiction movies especially high budget movies like this one. I tried to enjoy the computer graphics and special effects, but the second time around I couldn't finish the movie. I thought this movie was indeed what the title suggests. Cloud Atlas. It was a cloudy view of a world that doesn't make sense. To some people I can see how they can imagine this to be a profound and life-changing story, but I would say the views of that person clearly are unintelligent or need to watch better movies. If you do watch this movie be prepared because it's long and may be confusing for some viewers. I would not recommend this to most people, especially young kids. I would have to give this 4.5 out of 10.