Cloud Atlas Movie Reviews

“Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present. And by each crime, and every kindness, we birth our future.” Based on this very thought, the Wachowski siblings (The Matrix trilogy) along with Tom Tykwer (3) gives us this marvel of a film Cloud Atlas. Based on David Mitchell’s beast of a novel by the same name, the film revolves around six stories that take place between 1849 and an apocalyptic future

David Mitchell’s trippy 2004 novel is brought to the big screen in sumptuous style by the Wachowski siblings (The Matrix trilogy) and Tom Tykwer (Run Lola Run). The ambitious adaptation unfolds in six different places and time periods ranging from the Pacific islands in 1849 to post-apocalyptic Hawaii. Bookended by segments set in the distant future, the film’s earliest story revolves around an American lawyer (Jim Sturgess) whose encounter with a stowaway

It's hard to tell a single story right. 'Cloud Atlas' tells six. What fans of the book feel about the movie, we do not know yet, but fans of the film will certainly be desperate to lay their hands on the David Mitchell bestseller the moment they're out of the theatres. It is a complex and yet, compelling film that requires you to empty your bladder well before the opening credits roll so you don't miss a single moment

Cloud Atlas is going to be far and away the most divisive film of 2012, but I don’t think it’s possible to fault it for shortage of chutzpah. David Mitchell’s 2005 novel — pipped to the Booker prize by Alan Hollinghurst’s The Line of Beauty, though in any other year it would surely have won — is a virtuoso plate-spinning exercise, an addictive feat of nested storytelling, and a sprawling treatise about human capacities for removing and reclaiming freedom

To say that Cloud Atlas is ambitious in its scope would be an understatement. The Wachowskis have always tried to inspire awe amongst viewers with genre-bending movies that feature a tantalising mix of both spectacle and substance. But does it work? To begin with, all of the top billing cast members play six different characters (the film is divided into six stories) with plenty of 'wow' moments thrown in. Indeed, you will get to see the all-star cast

The Wachowskis have a thing for science fiction and for sort-of exploring man's quest for freedom against order. It's easy to see why they would be drawn towards David Mitchell's novel Cloud Atlas, with its grand theme of mankind separated by ages and time but not by the general ideas of freedom and love that propel it. The Wachowskis and Tykwer do a commendable job of mounting the concept, ditching the novel's linearity for a script that seamlessly blends

The Wachowskis have a thing for science fiction and for sort-of exploring man's quest for freedom against order. It's easy to see why they would be drawn towards David Mitchell's novel Cloud Atlas, with its grand theme of mankind separated by ages and time but not by the general ideas of freedom and love that propel it. The Wachowskis and Tykwer do a commendable job of mounting the concept, ditching the novel's linearity for a script that seamlessly blends

What might it be like to cross the Niagara on an oil-slicked tightrope, on a unicycle, blindfolded, with hands tied behind the back? You need look no further than David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas, which is surely one of the most dazzling literary stunts of this millennium. Six stories, seemingly unrelated, set in different time periods, setting the reader adrift on a raft of linguistic forms… — the novel is at once a lighthearted tease and a formal mind-bender