Coud Atlas is billed as a film about the interconnectedness of human lives.

Rating: 8/10 (3 March 2013)

This is a great film, no doubt about it. It is a visual treat, as you would expect from the Wachowskis, and there is a superlative standard of acting across the range of characters and timelines that keeps us fully involved. The film comprises several different story lines from different time periods, which are regularly cross-cut across the whole movie. confusing as this may seem, in fact it is easy enough to follow the different stories and, indeed, become fully engaged with them.
There are links made, but these are less than the sum of the parts of this film. I don't really buy into the idea that we are treated to some great interconnected opus, even while there is an overarching idea about how humanity never stands merely as the actions of an individual in time but reaches across the great span of human existence. This is an ambitious idea, which is only ephemerally realised, but if you go the film to enjoy the different stories - and the great joy of spotting the actors in different roles across the varying timelines - then you will be in for a treat. It may be three hours long, but it hardly seems that way.
I blogged a review at www.popgazette.blogspot.com