Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Cloud Atlas


I gave this my best shot.  I really wanted to enjoy this film, a multiple time frame adventure that dealt with life, death, love, hate, and all the other things it was supposed to deal with.  “Cloud Atlas” is lifeless and uninteresting.  The actors appear to be lost in the epic experience of making this movie.  It looks like they were told a line to say, and then they said it, and that was it.  The acting is uninvolved.  The dialog is overwritten and obvious.  There is no subtext.  The makeup is distracting.  Everything looks and feels fake.  When there is a lull in the story, a character is brutally murdered.  I haven’t read the novel.  I’m sure it was better than the film.

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