I love this movie based on the fact that the lives are all intertwined together thru life times of experience. It is Karma in play and tells the possibility of life times lived throughout history and how we all have cause/effect together. Add a cast of exceptional actors/actresses and it's a story worth watching.

It's beautiful, philosophical, and just brilliant. This is one of the most amazing things I have seen in theaters. Actually one of the greatest movies I have ever seen, yes the reviews are rather mixed but the ones who hated it did not understand it. At leas I don't think so, this is a love or hate movie, I loved it and I don't care. The movie was , emotional and just damn brilliant. Easily the best movie of the year.

How do I talk about this movie? how? I do not know how to, it's hard to describe it. It is something you have to see for yourself. It's basically about reincarnation and how what we do with our lives, affects the future and how everything is connected. It literally goes deep into the philosophy of human nature, if philosophy is your thing look no further. The Wachowskis and Tom Tykwer all did a phenomenal job on it.

The film is strange, quirky and yet beautiful, not to mention it was interesting seeing how the actors and actresses played all these multiple roles. It was also quite clever. The movie has action, romance and humor. It deals a lot about Karma, also explores on why we humans are the way we are, as I said, it goes into human nature.

I don't know how to write a helpful review on this movie, I also don not know how to describe it but it's stuck in my head and I can't stop thinking about it. The Matrix is my favorite movie of all time but Cloud Atlas I think is on par with it. It might be the best movie of the year for me, but also my favorite movie of all time. I give it an A+

Enjoyable movie overall. Good production values and pacing, and well-acted. However, I feel a sense of disappointment regarding the storyline. I expected to be awed and overwhelmed by the implications of how we are all interconnected through generations. As I was watching I could see the intention of the story, but I didn't feel moved by it. I suspect much of the beauty of the original book is lost in translation to the screenplay (I haven't read the book, but now I plan to). As with many book to movie adaptations, there are too many character intentions and nuances that don't translate well to the big screen, so the audience is left with a cursory understanding of the character's backgrounds and emotions that drive them. Still, this is a very enjoyable "rainy day with nothing better to do" distraction.

Cloud Atlas is a good film that could have been a great film if it had not been so confusing and inconsistent. Allow me to elaborate further. The film did have MANY positive, appealing aspects to it, it was visually stunning, had many rich and interesting characters, both good and bad, as well as very strong spiritual themes such as reincarnation and the belief that there is a bond that connects us all. However, the fact that it kept switching back and forth, changing characters, style of dialogue, and even tone (some stories were more humorous or dramatic than others), it almost felt like I was watching six separate movies instead of one cohesive one. I understand that all of the stories are connected and feature the same actors/actresses so it's obviously meant to be just one film, the settings and tones, as previously mentioned, were so diverse and different that I still had trouble connecting them to the other stories. One story, the 19th century one, felt like a historical adventure film a la Pirates of the Caribbean, The story that takes place in the far future, with Tom Hanks and Halle Berry meeting up in a setting which oddly reminded me of Battlestar Galactica, seems like a Sci-Fi epic similar to Avatar or Star Wars and the story that takes place in modern times seems like something Guy Ritchie or Shane Meadows would direct. It was all very inconsistent and very unnecessary. However, I greatly did enjoy all of the actors playing such wildly different characters, especially Tom Hanks, who plays both very villainous and very heroic roles, demonstrating how he eventually redeems himself of his past sins and negative karma. I have heard this film described as a very "Buddhist" film and I certainly agree, many of the central themes of Buddhism such as karma, reincarnation, dharma, and samsara. I feel that there aren't enough films of this sort being made nowadays and I greatly enjoyed watching it. Cloud Atlas is no masterpiece, at least in my view, but neither is it pretentious or overwrought, it's just an enjoyable film which I'm glad I managed to watch in all it's roughly 3 hour running time. Thank you and have a nice day.