"Cloud Atlas" is an easy movie to ridicule. This is after all the flick that had Halle Berry play a male Korean doctor. But for all its goofiness, Tom Twyker and Lana and Andy Wachowski's adaptation of David Mitchell's novel is perhaps the most ambitious and unrepentantly romantic movie of the year. It is also so dense that it demands multiple viewings, jumps back and forth between six very different narratives, including an 18th-century nautical adventure and a sci-fi saga set in Korea during the 22nd century. For the first hour, the stories seem utterly unconnected, and you might be left wondering what the hell you're watching; but as the film gathers steam, the individual plots start to resonant off one another in strange and striking ways. What's the deal with the birthmark? By the end, the narrative brilliantly pulled together leaves you feeling surprisingly moved and flush with an unexpected feeling of optimism -- something of a rarity in an age of dour blockbusters. Though this film failed to find an audience in the theater, "Cloud Atlas" is a great film to watch (and rewatch) on DVD.
An exploration of how the actions of individual lives impact one another in the past, present and future, as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero, and an act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution.
Writers: David Mitchell (novel), Lana Wachowski
Stars: Tom Hanks, Halle Berry and Hugh Grant
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