Epic movie-making

Rating: 8/10 (11 November 2012)

Technically brilliant, beautiful, challenging, intelligent, and narratively complex, but perhaps not quite as emotionally satisfying as it hoped to be. Maybe just a little too big for itself, but I wish I was 30 years younger so I would have time to watch it a few more times in my life.
I love films like this. It's why I go to the movies; to be taken someplace else, to another time and another place, where I hope to see something that makes me think and feel about my life and my place in the world a little differently. Regardless of the few shortcomings which I'm sure other people have raged on about, if you enjoy looking for both the bigger picture and the smaller, more intimate moments in films, Cloud Atlas will certainly have you covered.