Directed by:
Bill ForsythCinematography:
Michael CoulterComposer:
Michael GibbsCast:
Robin Williams, Robert Carlyle, Eoin McCarthy, Robert Cavanah, Tony Curran, John Turturro, Bill Nighy, David Morrissey, Andrew Tiernan, Anna Galiena (more)VOD (1)
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In five distinct yet cleverly interlocked roles, Williams is a cave dweller, a Roman slave, a medieval wayfarer, a Portuguese nobleman shipwrecked in Africa and a modern Manhattanite whose homelife has hit the rocks. Each character reaches for survival, love, belonging - for all the things that made humankind draw together in the first place. Each is a human being faced with an unforgettable and universal challenge: Being Human. (official distributor synopsis)
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We are only human and this film will show us, with five stories from five different environments, that as humans we have qualities that are definitely worth shit, and which we unfortunately will not get rid of. The movie addresses these qualities in an imaginative way. Robin Williams is also great. What is worse is the rendition, whose quality during the 117-minute running time fluctuates in an unbelievable fashion. Even though the setting of the short stories is more than interesting. But that is of little use when none of the stories end with any kind of a moral lesson or at least anything that would stick in my memory.
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So I really couldn't get into this. It's like someone was trying to make "Cloud Atlas" before it was even written, but didn't really know what they wanted to say, they just messed around with human destinies that are absolutely uninteresting. Only Robin Williams shows here how great of an actor he was, but what's the point of so much effort when the result is just oddity?
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