Cloud Atlas begins by introducing us to its many protagonists whose stories take place decades and even centuries apart. We meet naïve 18th century lawyer Adam Ewing (Jim Sturgess); a handsome young composer named Robert Frobisher (Ben Whishaw) living in the 1930s, hippie journalist Luisa Rey (Halle Berry) reporting in the 1970s, publisher Timothy Cavendish (Jim Broadbent) living in the present day, Korean clone worker Somni-451 in the distant future and finally a tribesman named Zachary (Tom Hanks) in post-apocalyptic Hawaii.
The lives of these seemingly unrelated characters are inexplicably linked through fate, chance and emotion. As each character faces dilemmas—whether issues of life or death or establishing liberation from a life of slavery or servitude—Cloud Atlas arches on the belief that our actions and destinies may not always be our own and the sometimes unexplainable feelings of reincarnation and déjà vu that humans experience have actual meaning.
I say to just watch the trailer for this movie instead. The trailer is easy to watch & easy to understand. I have this movie for rental in my video store & it's safe to say that i bought too many copies. Majority of customers were not not impressed with this movie.
I had great hopes for this movie, I thought it would be a movie of re-incarnation and the lives would eventually touch each other but no just a big disappointment, I was glad when it was over, I kept looking at the time, not satisfying at all.
Very good movie. Not so good ending. Overall very watchable.