I watched Cloud Atlas this weekend. I liked it, but I suspect that it would have been a bit too confusing if I hadn't read the book before. Also, some of the makeup/prosthetics were cringe-worthy, like when Halle Berry played an old Asian man. I'm also not sure whether they followed the book with the protagonist in each story being the same reincarnated soul (minus one) or whether they meant for the audience to consider each actor representing the same soul in each story. I suspect the latter, and I guess that's an OK change for the film adaptation (although that would raise a question of what happened with Hugo Weaving's character, who is not an actual being but a vision or hallucination in the sixth story). I did like the way they weaved all six stories together instead of using the nest structure of the book, which is great for prose but probably would not have worked for visual media.