Cloud Atlas

Cloud Atlas (2012) – This is a wildly ambitious film, and although none of the stories are anything to sing and dance about individually (nor do they tie together particularly well), the directors manage the storylines well enough and slow-build to a mostly satisfying payoff; the film’s real selling point, though, is the remarkable makeup gimmick: the film is filled with inexplicable gender- and race-bending casting of the same few actors – you’ll be doing well to spot just two of Hugh Grant’s characters, never mind all six – because who doesn’t want to see Halle Berry as an elderly Korean man? 6