Cloud Atlas Movie Trailer

Posted by Charmaine Blake on Sep 13th, 2012 in Action Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, New Releases, Sci-Fi | 0 comments

Cloud Atlas Movie Trailer

Cloud Atlas is an upcoming movie starring Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Hugo Weaving and Jim Broadbent. This new movie will explore the story of individual lives and how their actions and decisions recreate the past, present and future. Cloud Atlas is an action/adventure, mystery film that puts together a story about one soul that has been shaped into different beings and how they change the course of history. The ensemble of the movie Cloud Atlas appears in multiple roles through the different stories across time. Cloud Atlas will soon impart great wisdom and inspiration for all movie fans with the wonderful twist of its story. Let’s take a look at an early review for Cloud Atlas:

“Cloud Atlas: A Great Movie That Will Boggle Your Mind and Heart

An intense three-hour mental workout rewarded with a big emotional payoff, “Cloud Atlas” suggests that all human experience is connected in the pursuit of freedom, art and love. As inventive narratives go, there’s outside the box, and then there’s pioneering another dimension entirely, and this massive, independently financed collaboration among Tom Tykwer and Wachowski siblings Lana and Andy courageously attempts the latter, interlacing six seemingly unrelated stories in such a way that parallels erupt like cherry bombs in the imagination. The R-rated epic should find a substantial audience when Warner Bros. releases it Oct. 26, assuming critics don’t kill it in the cradle.

Based on David Mitchell’s novel — more like six novels really, with each one executed in a different genre, then split and wrapped around the next in a nested, “The Saragossa Manuscript”-style construction — this daunting adaptation rejects the book’s innovative, but overly literary format in favor or a more cinematic approach, opting to tell all half-dozen tales at once. Like juggling Ginsu blades, the tricky feat is part stunt, part skill, but undeniably entertaining to witness as half a millennium of world history unfolds, much of it set in centuries still to come.

Whereas the directors’ earlier films hook viewers from the opening scene, this one functions more like a symphony, laying out snatches of all six separate strands and gradually building toward grand movements in which these elements merge in different combinations. Playing to their respective strengths, the Wachowskis tackle the earliest and two future-set segments, while Tykwer manages the three more contempo episodes, including a comedic one featuring Jim Broadbent as Timothy Cavendish, a borderline-senile book editor set in present-day London.

Broadbent, like the rest of the multiculti cast, reappears in the other sections as well, fully reinventing himself as a briny sea captain and a world-famous composer, plus a couple other bit roles so cleverly disguised by makeup, auds might not recognize him on first viewing. Each of the stories involves some measure of romance, beginning in 1849, with American lawyer Adam Ewing (Jim Sturgess) separated from his beloved (Doona Bae) by seafaring adventures among the Pacific Islands, and extending to the year 2346, where a lowly goat-herder (Tom Hanks) falls for an emissary (Halle Berry) from the opposite end of the technological spectrum in post-apocalyptic Hawaii.”

The original article can be read at Variety

Cloud Atlas is directed by Lana Wachowski and Tom Tykwer, it will be out in theatres on October 26th 2012.

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Charmaine Blake loves movies, musical theater listening to music and taking pictures of anything that she finds interesting. She is a voracious reader and writer, and enjoys her time writing for New Movie Launches. Charmaine loves spending time with her pets and currently has a Siberian Husky, a toy poodle and a cat.