Cloud Atlas Reviews
Seven Days
With Hollywood in its current conservative mode, recycling tired franchises left and right, it's tempting to applaud the sheer out-there-ness of Cloud Atlas.
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| Original Score: 6/10
We Got This Covered
Cloud Atlas is a mesmerizing piece of art that experimentally pushes the medium of film to daring new heights.
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| Original Score: 4.5/5
Triple J
Despite the fact that ot sometimes looks like $102 million celebrity dress up party where Tom Hanks got a really good bulk deal on latex noses Cloud Atlas sometimes strikes moments of sheer beauty.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Cinema Sight
A little too unfocused at times, there's something deeply involving about this time-spanning romantic thesis.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
3AW
An epic, genre-hopping, unique adventure that effectively shoe-horns six films into one...Cloud Atlas achieves that rarest of all things for a film this big: it is engaging and consistently entertaining as well as providing brain food.
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| Original Score: 4/5
The Aristocrat
...few films have ever been this weird, this epic and this disjointed.
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| Original Score: 3/5
SFX Magazine
It's not often we're given something that looks so dazzling, features such an impressive, eclectic cast, and which will leave your noggin buzzing with ideas.
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| Original Score: 4/5
The Mercury
For a long, sprawling, high-concept, philosophical, stylistic mash-up of a film, Cloud Atlas is impressive and thought-provoking without ever being pretentious.
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| Original Score: 4.5/5
The Sunday Age
A think piece linking past, present and future that's surprisingly haunting and moving in its delivery.
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| Original Score: 4/5
2UE That Movie Show
Cloud Atlas is like nothing I've ever seen before. It's a bold cinematic treasure from a brave collaborative filmmaking collective.
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| Original Score: 5/5
ABC Radio Brisbane
Editor Alexander Berner has interwoven these narratives and by cutting back-and-forth between them at a rapid pace, created something that will hold your attention for three hours.
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| Original Score: B+
Quickflix
A compelling, uncynical, often thrilling package, the likes of which we've never seen before, and will perhaps never see replicated. I will watch Cloud Atlas more than once.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Concrete Playground
Tykwer and the Wachowskis are aiming for greatness here. They don't make it, and that leaves the unorthodox film open to savagery, far more than it deserves.
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| Original Score: 7/10
Irish Times
The finished product is no Matrix, but it's certainly worth a look - even if you do find yourself throwing popcorn at the screen from time to time.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Scotsman
Large-scale mainstream moviemaking of a type that could be just as easily be celebrated or castigated as a filmmaking folly.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Movie Talk
Tykwer and the Wachowskis take Mitchell's complex narrative and give it breathtaking momentum on screen. Admittedly, they lose the novel's element of dazzling pastiche, but they bring out its qualities of rollicking adventure and cliffhanging suspense.
Urban Cinefile
Brilliant or pretentious - or both? An avalanche of ideas cascade relentlessly in this full throttle and stimulating film that is often frustrating and overlong, as it puts forward its proposition that we are all connected.
Birmingham Mail
In many respects, it's exceptional - both in concept and execution.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Contactmusic.com
Mad geniuses Tom Tykwer (Perfume) and the Wachowski siblings (The Matrix) boldly take on David Mitchell's layered epic novel, which connects six generations through the power of storytelling.
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| Original Score: 4/5
