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Cloud Atlas is a film that is massively huge not just on a budget scale, but on a story scale.  It’s a film that many people went, my brain hurts, too much thinking, just too much everything.  I went in with a different mindset. Just let the movie go and see what connections I can make.  Polarizing as many reviews of this film are, I can say this is one on a positive end. From the first frame to the final tilt of the camera I was riveted by the stories throughout the film, however wondering why some of the stories were shoved to the back for a good portion of the film(Cavendish’s story towards the end).  The film follows six stories  and how one affects the other, for good and for bad throughout history.  In many of the modern blockbusters we see today, it is hard to empathize with one character, let alone multiple different characters on different timelines. But this movie isn’t like that at all. The Wachowskis and Tom Tykwer create these worlds with beautiful visuals,

Daniel Craig. Javier Bardem.  Judi Dench.  Ralph Fiennes. Sam Mendes.  Roger Deakins.  Thomas Newman. All modern legends in their own right in the filmmaking industry.  You would think their new film, yeah not any film, a Bond film, would blow you away, wouldn't you?  Not today, not today. Skyfall was a film that had so much promise. So much.  And yet, it took a step back following in the footsteps of Quantum of Solace. Skyfall follows Bond as he is to retrieve a drive that contains all agents hidden in terrorist organizations across the world.  He can't find it and the chase pursues.  It ends on a train, where M orders an agent to shoot a man Bond is fighting.  She shoots, and hits Bond.  The rest of the film follows M16 and M, limping out with out Bond, hoping to stay afloat.  But things get worse and worse, and low and behold, Bond comes back to save the day, and does, with a story that well, isn't Bond like at all really ( even less enticing than Q