• Rich . wrote his opinion about Cloud Atlas
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    I've never seen a film this disjointed. Six different stories with different settings and characters but all using the same actors. One sixth's a pretty great Matrix style sci-fi but after that you've got everything from cliched detective and post apocalypse stories to a comedy about escaping an old folks home and they don't really tie together much by the end.
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      Editing … So is it that the story on the whole is disjointed or is the way the movie presents it? I've heard the book was pretty good. Have you had a chance to read it?
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      Editing … I actually thought the six stories transitioned between each other pretty seamlessly. That's why I thought this movie was so masterful, not only it's ambitious but I thought it did what it tried to do brilliantly. I don't think they were supposed to "tie in" into an ending, the point of the movie is that in one life you might be a completely different person than in another (hence the multiple genres, brilliant decision there if you ask me). I can perfectly understand why you felt that way though, my brother has the same opinion...
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      Editing … It's more that I didn't feel like there was a whole story Daniel, they're near enough six separate ones. There were links between them but they mostly either seemed really small or a bit forced. Can't say I've read the book, I wonder how different it is. I get what you mean about it being seamless Ulty, it was cut well so the stories didn't really interrupt eachother at bad moments. All the same, it still felt like trying to watch six very different films at once.
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      Editing … The ambitious storytelling of the film may not be everyone's cup of tea, I get that, but the movie was still brilliantly directed and breathtakingly well shot. A movie that looks and sounds this good is very rare too.
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      Editing … I usually love ambitious films, I just don't think this one pulled off its ambitions that well. Glad someone else enjoyed it though.
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