An Interleaved Pulp Fiction Times 2

Rating: 3/10 (10 November 2012)

Pulp Fiction was made up , as I recall, of 3 unrelated mini-movies that ran sequentially. Cloud Atlas has 6 unrelated mini-movies that are interleaved, each being shown in roughly 10 minute vignettes. Don't waste your time trying to find a common thread between any of them. Well, in fact, there is ONE subtle inter-relationship between the "Neo-Seoul 2144" flick and the "2321 After the Fall" flick having to do with a character in the former now being worshiped as a goddess in the latter. But you'll have to listen closely to the pigeon-English spoken by the post-apocalyptic tribes-people in hopes of ever detecting this. And how the 'shooting-star' tattoo, occurring in 3 of the flick, relates is never resolved.I can't say that Cloud Atlas wasn't entertaining, but it certainly was not thought provoking. And I can't even remember a single melody, or segment of, from the sound track..was there even a sound track ? If you want to see a movie about how people's actions effect others in their lives, rent The Butterfly Effect. It's a much better and shorter film.