Six movies and six major actors, all for the price of 1. Cloud Atlas is billed as a complex, sci-fi movie and it does not disappoint in that respect. The different stories, at different times, by different characters keep the audience on its toes to follow along.
This is a movie that begs to be watched twice. You'd think that such a story would drag but it keeps the pace throughout. The roles of the stars are so different they really work well against casting type.
Like the Matrix (also by the Wachowskis) or Inception, the movie works on different levels, but in this case different points in time. Tom Hanks, Halle Berry each play different characters during a span of many years. Halle Berry is excellent in her various roles.
I'd tell you more, but its hard to piece together a description without giving away part of the fun of trying to figure it out. See for yourself.
**** - highest rating
Argo
With this political season comes a political thriller, harkening to the heyday of political movies, the 1970s. Argo is a movie based on a now-declassified story of the Iran Hostage Crisis. 6 embassy people made it out the back door before the embassy was overrun. Those 6 hid out with the Canadian Ambassador until the CIA hatched a plan to get this out.
The plan was to pretend to be making a movie and claim that the 6 were movie people who had come to Iran for a location scout and then were leaving. To provide cover, the CIA came up with a fake movie for legit background. The 6 were to take new identities to provide cover under which to leave.
The fake movie that needed to be real: like The Producers and Springtime for Hitler. That provide some well-done comedy. This was offset by the drama of if the plan would come off. Like 2 movies in 1.
The political thriller was reminiscent of All The President's Men and whether or not the secrecy would work. Like Deep Throat, the ruse becomes a big part of the movie.
* * * 1/2
The plan was to pretend to be making a movie and claim that the 6 were movie people who had come to Iran for a location scout and then were leaving. To provide cover, the CIA came up with a fake movie for legit background. The 6 were to take new identities to provide cover under which to leave.
The fake movie that needed to be real: like The Producers and Springtime for Hitler. That provide some well-done comedy. This was offset by the drama of if the plan would come off. Like 2 movies in 1.
The political thriller was reminiscent of All The President's Men and whether or not the secrecy would work. Like Deep Throat, the ruse becomes a big part of the movie.
* * * 1/2
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