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- First reviewJune 29, 2010
- Last reviewNovember 25, 2012
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Cloud Atlas is a Masterpiece
PostedNovember 25, 2012
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Cloud Atlas is an incredible achievement of film making destined to become a classic of the same caliber as Citizen Kane, Blade Runner and Harold and Maude. Like Cloud Atlas, those films were well received with some negative reviews and did just okay at the box office. It was only years later that people realized what truly amazing works of art they were. This is one of those movies.
Cloud Atlas was based on a wonderful, but extremely complicated, book with multiple plot lines in different time periods -- Past, Present, and a thousand years in the future. Andy and Lana Wachowski took this nearly impossible to film book and MADE IT BETTER.
Most movies based on great books end up being disappointing reflections of the novel. This is NOT one them. It delivers the power and the emotion of the book so faithfully that, in some ways, you're better off not having read the book because the surprises will have much more impact.
The book even had some unresolved story lines which the film makers resolved in incredibly smart and satisfying ways, making the movie better than the book in some ways.
I am so glad I saw Cloud Atlas in a theater. My one quibble was I wish they had cast someone like Ewan McGregor instead of Tom Hanks (He's serviceable; I'm never moved by him) but, other than that, what a truly amazing film.
It was so beautifully shot that regretted not catching it in Imax. If they ever re-release it that format I'm there.
Oh and did I mention that Cloud Atlas is also a sci fi movie? But to label it that does it a disservice because, while it is a great sci fi film, it is also much, much more.
This is one of those movies that will be part of major film retrospective for decades to come.
Pros well paced, great story, great actors, a sci fi classic
Yes, I recommend this movie.
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London Assurance
PostedJune 29, 2010
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from Los Angeles, CA
A Victorian play updated. The story, while clunky and awkward, was saved by brilliant performances. One major quibble. It feels like if you put in the time, the National Theatre will give an actress her "turn" in a lead role. The woman who played the ingenue was supposed to be eighteen and "lovely." Unfortunately, she was neither. While she was a good actress, she was just "dead wrong" in that role and every time there was close up of her, it kept throwing us out of the play. Are there no pretty comediennes in the National Theater?
Yes, I recommend this movie.
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