Ebert quits narrative in his review of the Wachowski’s three hour experiment:
I was never, ever bored by “Cloud Atlas.” On my second viewing, I gave up any attempt to work out the logical connections between the segments, stories and characters. What was important was that I set my mind free to play.
There’s lots of reasons to love Ebert. Prime is that he’s never forgotten his core curiosity in the medium he covers. Cynical critics are sometimes more entertaining, but in the end, considering the crap he’s been forced to watch, his writing is simply wonderful — literally “full of wonder.”
