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"Cloud Atlas" is a new movie from the Wachowski brothers who brought us "The Matrix" trilogy. Two of the storylines in the movie are sci-fi. This film is stuffed with A-listers like Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Hugo Weaving, Hugh Grant and Susan Sarandon. What's amazing about this film is that each actor plays multiple roles. Tom Hanks and Halle Berry each played 6 different characters. The film tells 6 different tales spread out over various time periods from the past to the distant future and tells how our souls and actions all connect like ripples through time.
Click on the box above to watch the extended trailer. The makeup is remarkable! Halle Berry even plays a white woman in one of the stories and Hugo Weaving plays a woman nurse at a retirement home.
The special effects in the sci-fi storylines are as good as it gets too. The movie has a little bit of something for everyone... drama, romance, action, fight scenes, mystery and sci-fi. The film jumps back in forth in time so that you see about 10 minutes of one story and it jumps to the next and then cycles back to the next 10 minutes of the first story.
Its like watching 6 thirty minute stories in 3 hours but bouncing around back and forth between stories the whole time. The movie was well shot, well acted, and the music, fx, and makeup were terrific. I enjoyed most of the stories but found myself somewhat bored with a couple of them.
I think the film was too fluffy, preachy, and tied neatly with a bow in the end like a packaged deal... for my taste that is. I would rather have seen a full length movie set in the futuristic asian world that one of the stories was about. Anyway, I enjoyed watching it once and it was fun just to spot all the different roles each actor played.
Sometimes it was difficult to pick them out under the sometimes heavy fx makeup. Check it out for yourself and let me know you thoughts.
- Patrick Shawn Bennett Broadcasting from within the cloud...
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