Rotten
Whatever your age, even if life is an ocean made up of many drops, you may resolve that life is too short for this errant nonsense.
David Thomson, The New Republic
Cloud Atlas
Everything is connected
2012 · 2h 52m · R
Drama, Science Fiction
Directed by
Lilly Wachowski
,
Lana Wachowski
,
Tom Tykwer
Overview
A set of six nested stories spanning time between the 19th century and a distant post-apocalyptic future. Cloud Atlas explores how the actions and consequences of individual lives impact one another throughout the past, the present and the future. Action, mystery and romance weave through the story as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero and a single act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution in the distant future. Based on the award winning novel by David Mitchell. Directed by Tom Tykwer and the Wachowskis.
Director and cast
- Lilly Wachowski Director
- Lana Wachowski Director
- Tom Tykwer Director
- Tom Hanks as Dr. Henry Goose / Hotel Manager / Isaac Sachs / Dermot Hoggins / Cavendish Look-a-Like Actor / Zachry
- Halle Berry as Native Woman / Jocasta Ayrs / Luisa Rey / Indian Party Guest / Ovid / Meronym
- Jim Broadbent as Captain Molyneux / Vyvyan Ayrs / Timothy Cavendish / Korean Musician / Prescient 2
- Hugo Weaving as Haskell Moore / Tadeusz Kesselring / Bill Smoke / Nurse Noakes / Boardman Mephi / Old Georgie
- Jim Sturgess as Adam Ewing / Poor Hotel Guest / Megan's Dad / Highlander / Hae-Joo Chang / Adam / Zachry Brother-in-Law
- Bae Doona as Tilda / Megan's Mom / Mexican Woman / Sonmi-451 / Sonmi-351 / Sonmi Prostitute
- Ben Whishaw as Cabin Boy / Robert Frobisher / Store Clerk / Georgette / Tribesman
- James D'Arcy as Young Rufus Sixsmith / Old Rufus Sixsmith / Nurse James / Archivist
- Zhou Xun as Talbot / Hotel Manager / Yoona-939 / Rose
- Keith David as Kupaka / Joe Napier / An-kor Apis / Prescient
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
65%
Tomatometer
Fresh
A film which piles on the action, the romance, the philosophical inquiry and the silly accents until the viewer is left punch-drunk and reeling. Seriously, what's not to love?
Tom Huddleston, Time Out
Fresh
They key to successfully absorbing the movie may be in not trying to overthink what's on screen.
James Berardinelli, ReelViews
Rotten
An eminently peculiar mismatch of substance and form, like a Hallmark card written by David Foster Wallace.
Christopher Orr, The Atlantic
Rotten
The result is maddening, exasperating, occasionally exhilarating -- and mostly boring.
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor
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