I was very taken and persuaded by the television/movie & you tube trailer that this film had a very good chance of being an "Epic Film" along with an epic performance by an Academy Award Winning Actor in Tom Hanks. But after viewing only one hour of this movie I realized that the trailer completed fooled me.
Neither myself or wife had read the Book "Cloud Atlas" or we may well have understood the story or plot better. Both of us were lost from the very beginning of the film. It just felt like trying to put together a "Jumbled Puzzle with very small pieces." WE may not be very good movie critics, but we love to go almost every weekend to be entertained by a good movie with a good script, along with good acting, action, etc. Just didn't get the "Drift" of this film.
It is very rare, that we have ever walked out of a movie before its completion. But after a "VERY LONG" Hour, we could not take "Cloud Atlas" any longer. And the Violence shown may have been an important part of the book. But was it necessary for these murder scenes to be so graphic.
"Cloud Atlas" too me was a complete Waste of our time and money. We are both really looking forward to several of the upcoming holiday blockbuster movies: Les Miserables, Flight, The Hobbit, & Lincoln after trying to View this "Cloudy Mess."
Neither myself or wife had read the Book "Cloud Atlas" or we may well have understood the story or plot better. Both of us were lost from the very beginning of the film. It just felt like trying to put together a "Jumbled Puzzle with very small pieces." WE may not be very good movie critics, but we love to go almost every weekend to be entertained by a good movie with a good script, along with good acting, action, etc. Just didn't get the "Drift" of this film.
It is very rare, that we have ever walked out of a movie before its completion. But after a "VERY LONG" Hour, we could not take "Cloud Atlas" any longer. And the Violence shown may have been an important part of the book. But was it necessary for these murder scenes to be so graphic.
"Cloud Atlas" too me was a complete Waste of our time and money. We are both really looking forward to several of the upcoming holiday blockbuster movies: Les Miserables, Flight, The Hobbit, & Lincoln after trying to View this "Cloudy Mess."