the reviews did me wrong

Rating: 3/10 (2 November 2012)

One of my simple pleasures in life is to see highly rated, under-advertised films. So as you may expect, when I looked up 'Cloud Atlas' on IMDb, I was thrilled and planned my show time that night.
An 8.3 on IMDb in my mind is a guaranteed win! BUT after this experience I want to know who I pis$ed off on this database to be conned into such a mind numbing experience.
The film starts out slow and ends slow. The 30 second spurts of action are nothing more than teasers...no the film is not going to actually get better. A countless number of times through, calming music played while browsing through the lives of the characters tricking me into it finally being over. However, it would just continue between characters that lead barely exciting lives and are dragging mine down with them. I found myself wishing characters would die in hopes it will speed up the torture I was sitting through. This is a movie where a nuclear reactor could explode killing off every character and I would not walk away questioning it or even being upset.
It was almost as if the directors wanted this movie to be a bit of everything and in returned got a train wreck. Action, horror, pornography, mystical, comical, pick one and stick to it next time because this is an epic #fail.
Unless you are somehow enamored with the novels this is based off of, I would not see this movie. It is not magical like Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings. It is not mind blowing like Inception. The ancient characters can not compare to Apocolypto. It's no comedy and unless you're into soft core Asian porn I would just back away from the 'Cloud Atlas' tickets and rethink the next three hours of your life.