Cloud Atlas
Cloud Atlas explores how the actions and consequences of individual lives impact one another throughout the past, the present and the future. Action, mystery and romance weave dramatically through the story as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero and a single act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution in the distant future. Each member of the ensemble appears in multiple roles as the stories move through time.
24 August 1975, London, England, UK
18 July 1997, California, USA
1958, Jersey, Channel Islands
30 September 1970, Catterick, North Yorkshire, England, UK
14 August 1966, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
12 January 1969, Southport, Lancashire, England, UK
11 October 1979, Seoul, South Korea
18 October 1974, Quzhou, Zhejiang, China
23 June 1991, Hamburg, Germany
18 July 1997, California, USA
1941
29 November 1935, Scotland, UK
14 October 1980, Clifton, Bedfordshire, England, UK
1959
14 September 1970, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
16 June 1992, Berlin, Germany
1939, Elgin, Scotland, UK
31 December 1962, Duisburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
19 January 1984, Hanover, Lower Saxony, West Germany
April 09, 2016
This is the Bermuda Triangle of sci-fi - where logic and clarity vanish without a trace.
February 20, 2013
A film which piles on the action, the romance, the philosophical inquiry and the silly accents until the viewer is left punch-drunk and reeling. Seriously, what's not to love?
October 26, 2012
For all the spectacular settings and visionary designs, Cloud Atlas left me feeling disconnected
May 03, 2015
Even at its most risible, this oddball picture has a groovy, inclusive spirit that feels downright revolutionary in our sterile, blockbuster age.
June 21, 2016
We normally can't see dead people, but that doesn't mean they're not like threads disappearing below a tapestry's surface and resurfacing elsewhere. A clarification of sorts.
June 14, 2013
Whatever your age, even if life is an ocean made up of many drops, you may resolve that life is too short for this errant nonsense.
October 28, 2012
They key to successfully absorbing the movie may be in not trying to overthink what's on screen.
May 10, 2016
Despite its shortcomings, it's worth seeing and worth trying to get your head around days after you have. Revolutionary or gimmicky? Good news: Not quite either.
September 26, 2013
This is a film that will be enjoyed most by people who haven't seen many other films.
October 26, 2012
The result is maddening, exasperating, occasionally exhilarating -- and mostly boring.
August 06, 2014
When the narratives are formally compared as an expression of karma and reincarnation, the juxtaposition is vacuous.
October 26, 2012
An eminently peculiar mismatch of substance and form, like a Hallmark card written by David Foster Wallace.
