Each crime and every kindness

Cloud Atlas

(2012)

All right, I'll admit that the rapidfire serial cliffhanging seemed more gimmicky this time than the first, and the language was no less ordinary the second time around, but good god, if this be failure, what magnificent failure; if this be failure, I wish a lot more directors had the smarts and the stones to fail this big. I'll be spending the nearly 3 hours with this beautiful failure a few more times before I'm done.

Oh, and just for the record: no, I don't think it is a failure.