A fine piece of philosophical science fiction

Rating: 9/10 (25 July 2013)

This is not a highly accessible film, but few great films are and this may certainly qualify as one.
It redeemed the Wachowskis in my eyes. The Matrix itself was a fun, well made, if in the end a lot more shallow then its pretensions, sci fi comic book actioner. The middle movie was philosophically interesting but suffered from middle-movie syndrome. The last wasn't even up to comic book standards and ruined the whole series with a denouement I could hear every Sunday in church if I wished to.
I predict Matrix fans will hate Cloud Atlas. Complex and sophisticated in its story telling, and deeply philosophical, this also makes it hard to describe. You really have to not just see this movie, but truly experience it, and even then it leaves a great many open questions.
I am not surprised that those who didn't get the movie also by and large call the future- dialect "unintelligible." In both cases, its a sign of ears that are deaf to anything new or that asks the audience for some effort.