Cloud Atlas -- A Review by Venkat Subramaniam

Rating: 7/10 (16 August 2013)

With "babbits bawlin and the wind bitin t' bone" , the gruesomely emaciated Zachry , with a furrowed lineament yarns the exordium of what would seem to be an interminably woven sextet of figments. The film though droning on eternally its disjointed segments is a commendable endeavour of blending six stories into one.
The prolixity is indebted to the crowding of multitudinous tales which are spurred on by the audacity of ambition. There might even be an emotional tinge in the story of Sonmi-451, a fabricant server at a fast- food restaurant.
In a sense , Cloud Atlas might be perceived as a grandiose mess , yet the novelty of the vacillatory mode of shifting amidst six different worlds makes it a successful blend of multiple tales.