pseudo-intellectual crap

Rating: 3/10 (13 March 2014)

If this was a tom hanks MASH-UP.. It would be up there as an epic piece of art.... but it's not.
It's not a mash up. It's not the cinema equivalent to a collage. It's just a very glossy but very empty movie.
Had this been a mash up, that's a movie made from other movies, I would have given it a ten. Not for the plot (there isn't one), the acting (Tom Hanks?) or the make up and CGI (which is excellent) but for the illusion of a plot. Something this movie has in shovel loads.
However that's a quality of a Mash up; one that is achieved from excellent editing of a set of unconnected scenes created by different directors from different movies.
And that is exactly what you have here: A set of unconnected scenes drawn together by the main actor (Hanks) and a piece of music called the Cloud Atlas sextet. So No direction needed. And that's the impression you get from this: an absence of direction that results in pseudo-intellectual crap.
but full credit to the boys in the back room who have managed to pull something out of the fire