Maybe if you're 20 years old and high in your dorm room with your friends, the platitudes presented in 'Cloud Atlas' might seem profound. Anyone else in his or her right mind should recognize it for what it is: a bloated, pseudo-intellectual, self-indulgent slog through some notions that are really rather facile.
Ooh, we're all interconnected and our souls keep meeting up with each other over the centuries, regardless of race, gender or geography. We're individual drops of water but we're all part of the same ocean. That is deep, man.
Perhaps it all worked better on the page. 'Cloud Atlas' comes from the best-selling novel of the same name by David Mitchell which, in theory, might have seemed unfilmable, encompassing six stories over a span of 500 years and including some primitive dialogue in a far-away future. Sibling directors Lana and Andy Wachowski " who actually have come up with some original, provocative ideas of their own in the 'Matrix' movies (well, at least the first one) " working with 'Run Lola Run' director Tom Tykwer, have chopped up the various narratives and intercut between them out of order.
The A-list actors who comprise the cast play multiple parts across the various stories and in elaborate makeup that's often laughable....
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12:53 PM, Oct 27, 2012
New Delhi: The first extended trailer of Tom Hanks and Halle Berry's 'Cloud Atlas' was released to much excitement among fans of the epic drama, based on a 2004 novel by the same name by British author David Mitchell. A scene from the trailer shows Berry in a red sari and wearing the red and white bangles that married women from north India wear. Mitchell had won the British Book...
04:46 PM, Jul 27, 2012
London: Good news for gadget-loving James Bond fans - Q is back. Producers have confirmed that the MI6 quartermaster and expert in high-tech trickery will return in the upcoming Bond film, Skyfall. EON productions said that British actor Ben Whishaw will play the role made famous by the late Desmond Llewellyn, who played Q in 17 Bond films between 1963 and 1999. Comedian John Cleese later played the character in...
03:32 PM, Jul 14, 2012
Istanbul: The next James Bond movie, 'Skyfall,' promises the usual action, exotic locations, scheming villains and beautiful women. For fans of the original novels by Ian Fleming, there's more: a journey into the troubled psyche of the iconic spy. After all, the director of the 23rd film in the franchise, which spans half a century, is Sam Mendes, whose cinematic studies of personalities in emotional turmoil and even meltdown include...
02:35 PM, Apr 30, 2012
London: Ah, Mr. Bond, we've been waiting for you - and at last 007 is back, several years after his last screen adventure. Producers announced Thursday that filming has begun on 'Skyfall', the delayed 23rd film in the series and Daniel Craig's third outing as the suave British superspy. Craig, who has brought a hard edge to his portrayal, told reporters that the movie, directed by Sam Mendes and shot...
01:20 PM, Nov 04, 2011
