Write a commentCloud Atlas
Starring: Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Jim Broadbent, Hugh Grant and Susan Sarandon
If you are a Tom Hanks fan (I am), you will most likely make it through the entire movie feeling it wasn't an entire waste of your money. Cloud Atlas takes place over 6 different time periods and stories (from the year 1849 through 2215) and the cast remains the same throughout, just changing names and charachters. So as not to give anything away for those who have not seen it, suffice it to say that Tom is Dr. Henry Goose in 1849 with a cure for a parasitic worm eating Adam Ewing's (played by Jim Broadbent) brain. In 1936; Jim Broadbent plays a composer who is then seduced, screwed and left by a penniless upstart (Ben Wishaw) who claims the composers masterpiece as his own. 1970: Halle Berry is an investigative reporter on a story about nuclear disaster cover-up and now finds herself a target. 2012 finds a book editor (played by Broadbent) tricked into being committed to an institution that has it's own problems. In 2140 a drone (played by Barry breaks away from the life she was created for to become a revolutionary. A few centuries later the stroies come together (sort of) as Hanks tells a campfire story wrap things up but you are left with more questions then were answered..
Rated R for violence, language, sexuality/nudity and some drug use. Written and directed by by Tom Twyker, Andy Wachowski and Lana Wachowski (of Matrix fame). Could Atlas is 2 hours, 47 minutes long. Distributed by Warner Bros.
