When a director is equally earnest and ambitious about a particular project, the resulting film stands a great chance of being a love-it-or-hate-it proposition for audiences, and
Cloud Atlas is no exception. This adaptation of David Mitchell’s sweeping, award-winning novel was written and directed by Lana Wachowski, Andy Wachowski, and Tom Tykwer, and it juggles a huge cast (the majority of whom are playing multiple characters) in several different time periods in the service of a very simple moral -- be good to each other.
The intricate plot can’t really be distilled into a few paragraphs, so it’s enough to know that the film skips around without much ...
Released:
2012
Rated:
R
Length:
163 mins