Cloud Atlas
We have been treated to a whole host of fantastic sci-fi films this year that it really has been one of the strangest genres.
Cloud Atlas was just one of those films, and it has made it into our Best Movies of 2013 at number seven.
I have to admit that I was a little unsure about how Cloud Atlas was going to pan out, as I was not a fan of David Mitchell's novel.
The movie saw Tom Tykwer, Lana Wachowski and Andy Wachowski take up the challenge of bringing this sprawling novel to the big screen... and they rose to that challenge in fine style.
This is a bold and epic movie and the directors really should be applauded for taking on such a complex and huge story.
Tyker and the Wachowski's juggle a string of different stories and a whole host of fascinating characters with total ease and assurity. They bounce from story to story and character to character.
Cloud Atlas mixes genres and styles as the director weave together a complex narrative, interesting themes, and ideas into an intriguing and incredibly beautiful movie.
There is so much regurgitated rubbish being made in Hollywood these days, that Cloud Atlas was a film that stood up as a truly unique piece of filmmaking; I swear you will see no other movie like this in 2013.
Cloud Atlas is a movie that truly engages with the audience as it thrills and entertains, as well as asking some complex and rather large questions about life, love, and human kind.
On top of all that you have a truly fantastic cast as Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Jim Sturgess, Jim Broadbent, Hugh Grant, Ben Whishaw and Hugo Weaving all take on different guises and play a range of different character throughout this wonderful movie.
It is not very often that you get a movie that is better than the book, but Cloud Atlas has achieved that rare feat.
In Mitchell's defence, I feel that Cloud Atlas is a story that has to be seen visually to truly understand its power, scale, and scope.
Cloud Atlas is one of those rare movies that doesn't come along all that often; it excites, involves and entertains, and yet takes your breath away with every frame. A total triumph!