REEL DEAL: Cloud Atlas REVIEW

If the mysteries of the time and the universe still leaves you lost and the meaning of life gets a little blurry, probably its time for you to go on a special journey that will answer these questions for you. As the year has been full of superheros, chick flicks, and sometimes the same story with different actors and locations, how about going up, to the heavens and beyond to see the pattern of life, CLOUD ATLAS.

Journey across time and explore how fates intertwine when Cloud Atlas opens on December 5, 2012. Based on the best-selling novel by David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas is written for the screen and directed by acclaimed filmmakers Lana Wachowski, Tom Tykwer and Andy Wachowski. It features a stellar ensemble cast led by Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Jim Broadbent, Hugo Weaving, Jim Sturgess, Doona Bae, Ben Whishaw, James D’Arcy, Xun Zhou, Keith David, Susan Sarandon and Hugh Grant, all appearing in multiple roles.


Cloud Atlas explores how the actions and consequences of individual lives impact one another throughout the past, the present and the future. Drama, mystery, action and enduring love thread through a story that unfolds in multiple lifetimes as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero and a single act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution.