Cloud Atlas should have stayed in the clouds....

Rating: 1/10 (29 October 2012)

There is no simpler way of stating this. This movie was terrible. I lost 3 hours of my life watching this expecting something that was put together by the same group that handled the Matrix trilogy would be good, not great, but good. Nope, nada, nothing. Everything was wrong from the way the different time line stories were told, to the casting (who ever thought that Tom Hanks and Halle Berry would work together well on screen was high as the clouds). I honestly heard several people groan aloud and mumble "where is this going?". To my amusement, I shared in the same feeling...where was this going? I was awaiting for some sort of pivotal reconciling of all the different stories but nothing. Each ended as ridiculously has they began. It would've been better if it was like the Matrix and a "re-set" was done by the Oracle and the Director. Don't waste your time to see this. The acting was sub-par. In some instances it was quite comical to see Tom Hanks playing different parodies of himself. I honestly thought I'd see his character from Bosom Buddies showing up, but that was left to the antagonist character (aka Mr. Smith from the Matrix). Sad, just sad.