Never done before Multi role acting and chronological redundancy

Rating: 9/10 (30 December 2012)

As I see Cloud Atlas its challenging to connect the stories and impossible to realize who the actors are because of the make up. The editing of so many diverse stories to fit into a long and overwhelming load of visual information, dialogs, acting and stories make it a film like none ever done before. I applaud the many roles or character acting and their interpretations. Once again Tom Hanks is brilliant at a couple of roles and similar at others, the story never thickens because it not transcendent though that's the point they're trying to prove, scripts made this way unconnected or "shallow-connecting" through coincidences, now karma-style or soul re-births, much like in K. Sutherland's new lost project "TOUCH" or one or two recent films promoting the same idea. Fully entertaining, innovative, exiting multi story film by the creators of the Matrix the Wachowsky brothers and joined by Tom Tykwer. The fact that the movie is so long, over 2.40hrs, is acceptable from the standpoint that its narrating multiple parallel stories, up to 8 different stories or more I believe, with a combination of characters played by a handful of good actors. The clear trend of the Wachowsky brothers, still not far from their Matrix vision, but more develop futuristic environment and storytelling is once more truly delightful together with its action scenes.