Comments on: Review: ‘Cloud Atlas’ Is Bold, Messy & Disappointingly Unimaginative

By: Derik

Derik — Mon, 25 Apr 2016 03:54:56 +0000

The story is a confusing mess of multiple stories and multiple characters that, in the end, are completely irrelevant. I hated the movie and the book. Complete waste of my time.

By: P R

P R — Sun, 03 Jan 2016 04:41:39 +0000

You have to be smart to understand the stories and their philosophy. Travel and open your mind. The USA is the only country it has been a flop because American culture is one of the most narrow minded and biased one

By: Ivan Ivanov

Ivan Ivanov — Sat, 25 Jul 2015 21:06:42 +0000

This movie was a masterpiece, and it requires more than s low-level state of mind. Go watch more transformers.

By: Kaiser

Kaiser — Thu, 05 Jun 2014 17:04:28 +0000

I didn't find phrases like "Love can outlive death" and "Death is only a door" to be platitudes. I have suffered a lot in this life and found that truly, love is all there is after the sound and fury pass away. Perhaps this is such a simple and obvious statement that it gets missed by people looking for something more complex. But to each their own. I did find the film could have lost about half an hour somewhere in the middle – maybe the entire 1973 storyline – and the attempt to make some actors look like different races was sometimes a failure. But I was deeply moved and have seen few films so effective at capturing the epic sweep of human experience.

By: Bill bee

Bill bee — Mon, 16 Dec 2013 22:52:00 +0000

Utter crap the lousiest movie I have ever seen

By: Cerone

Cerone — Fri, 28 Jun 2013 08:02:51 +0000

HOW THE FUCK WAS THIS UNIMAGINATIVE? It's based off Buddhism, Reincarnation, and Karma.

By: Cerone

Cerone — Fri, 28 Jun 2013 08:02:33 +0000

HOW THE FUCK WAS THIS UNIMAGINATIVE? It's based off Buddhism, Reincarnation, and Karma.

By: Londoner

Londoner — Sun, 26 May 2013 13:37:00 +0000

Highly violent, relentless brutal violence including shot in mouth scenes, garotting, endless scenes and scenes of mindless shooting. The garotting scene wasn't censored despite the current alleged terrorist attack in Woolwich, London and Paris. It would have been a lot better without the mindlesss and constant violent scenes. Walked out it was so violent. A disgraceful film.

By: Robert Hiengler

Robert Hiengler — Sat, 30 Mar 2013 13:37:26 +0000

I think the major problem with the film is that it doesn't quite reach the heights it promised. Also the birthmark in the book Mitchell specifically says its represent the same soul through time. Now in the film it makes more sense as the mark in which that soul has to make a critical choice. As the filmakers had made a big thing about Tom Hanks "soul" changing over time? Or perhaps that was a marketing thing to make it more palatable. Either way this isn't very clear in the film and in a way that lack of continuity or ambiguity detracts from the message. That's my two bits.

By: Kyle

Kyle — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 07:29:43 +0000

No, there were not "nearly a half dozen time periods." There were indeed half a dozen time periods. Seven if you include when Zachry is an old man. This seems like a hard thing to miss. If you didn't even know how many plots were going on at once then you surely couldn't have been paying much attention to the movie. So why should anyone pay attention to your review? The idea of six stories at once was even spelled out because of an integral plot point being the Cloud Atlas Sextet. You being so ignorant of the movie invalidates your entire review.

By: Neil Fiertel

Neil Fiertel — Mon, 24 Dec 2012 03:52:22 +0000

So for certain people, Cloud Atlas was the worst film of the year…well, what can I say? One month after seeing it, I still think about it each day. I have ordered it on BluRay. I rarely do such a purchase but 30 bucks for the best film I have seen in years and one that contrary to the parasites that pass judgment on art and artists but have never so much as created anything outside of their Creative Writing Course 101, I know quality when I am in the presence of it. Cloud Atlas requires a good intellect, an open mind and one that can permit a complexity of plot and idea to permeate. It is, if anything, an amazing cinema breakthrough by joyously creative directors who have taken an interesting book and re-considered it for the big screen. I understand the author was happy with the film as well. To end my rant…critics have historically destroyed the careers and dreams of artists in many genres and eras. Why in the world people listen to the words of non-creative parasites is truly beyond me. I do not! I use my own mind and my own eyes and my opinion is that the audiences did not come because they want pap and not art. It is the same in all the areas of fine art and I suspect the directors were hoping against hope that they would be disproven and that intellect and brilliance would win out. In the end this film will have a long audience appreciation as it will live on as many great films have in the audiences of the world if not in the middlebrow world of certain critics. I am so glad that film recordings of high quality now exist so that any who love works of art such as this will be able to watch it again and again as I shall.

By: Neil Fiertel

Neil Fiertel — Mon, 24 Dec 2012 03:51:42 +0000

By: Neil Fiertel

Neil Fiertel — Mon, 24 Dec 2012 03:50:45 +0000

By: Sookie

Sookie — Sun, 16 Dec 2012 19:15:26 +0000

This movie was laughably bad…should be up for a razzie. The old scenes between Tom Hanks and Halle Berry were horrible. Just awful. And yes, I like deep movies about time/space and cool crap. But this stunk.

By: SCARLET

SCARLET — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 20:31:46 +0000

How did you get this job? You should stick to watching you simplistic lifetime movies.

By: Mohamjip

Mohamjip — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 22:09:13 +0000

Couldn't disagree with this critique more. The writer has missed the point of the story; the interrelationship between everybody, not only in the present, but throughout time and space; and how we tend to repeat the same mistakes over and over again. Everything would have made complete sense to the writer, had he gotten it.

By: Vincent James

Vincent James — Sat, 27 Oct 2012 11:30:15 +0000

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By: dudeabides

dudeabides — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 11:03:26 +0000

and your imagination as a critic is so vast :/

By: kitcon

kitcon — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 04:22:47 +0000

I don't disagree w/anything you said but I would give it a passing grade just because it still kept me engaged enough to care how it all ends despite being frequently exasperating through 3 hrs.

By: Rodion

Rodion — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 23:52:48 +0000

Um..why has this review just been copy and pasted? Is it because the original copy has ripped apart by being written badly and being plain wrong, and you didn't want all those comments anymore? Well i'm here to let you know. This is badly written. Plainly wrong. And completely misses the point of the entire movie.
" the stunt approach to casting actually works quite well." Guess what NOT A STUNT. Multiple actors playing multiple roles reflects beautifully the ENTIRE theme of the movie. Connectivity of the soul across generations.
Just Argh to you.

By: yer

yer — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 23:23:45 +0000

I went to see Argo this weekend and I saw three trailers in a row beforehand: Cloud Atlas, Life of Pi and Les Miserables. All of those films looked exactly the same. Bright colors, lots of people/animals in synchronized numbers, obtrusive levels of choreography. Just utterly overwrought filmmaking. What's up with that?

By: Pedro Canhenha

Pedro Canhenha — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 22:54:13 +0000

Great review as usual. I do point out one thing though. Mentioning that the several stories are undercooked, kind of hails back to the origin of the book itself, and ultimately feels like an easy way to criticize an adaptation (of any kind really). This film in particular was always going to be a complicated undertaking to be had, adapting a book that comprises such disparate storylines and yet are connected.