An Exercise In Nonsense

If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

The movie's only flaw is also a virtue: It's jammed with characters, stories, warmth and laughs.

There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

Science-fiction is the one genre of movies with the an unique ability to ask questions about technology, its influence on the human condition and the future in general. Some sci-fi movies do that brilliantly while being really entertaining at the same time. In the Cloud sounded as one of these movies, especially considering the cast which includes Gabriel Byrne, who I've always associated with good cinema.Sadly, my assumptions were completely wrong. In the Cloud is not a good movie. It's not even a decent movie, which is quite surprising seeing that it has a pretty strong cast. The actors are good, but they simply didn't have a lot to work with. The beginning of the plot is quite promising: a genius scientist claims he's found a way to map a human brain and preserve people's memories forever. Unfortunately, soon a million things start to happen at once: terrorist attacks, CIA wanting to take over the project, a mysterious organisation, drug-filled trips into the sicentist's memories, etc. It would be okay in a series, but in a movie with a running time of 1.5 hour it's too much. It is really hard to follow the plot and its super-fast pacing means that the characters don't really have any personality and in result I found it impossible to care about any of them.I also have to mention special effects, as they are truly awful. I know that the movie isn't a blockbuster, so I wasn't expecting too much, but they were still able to disappoint me. They look like something out of a 1990s movie. In 2018 even small productions can afford decent CGI. To make things worse, often the special effects are really distracting, especially in the scenes exploring memories. If anything they make a bad movie even worse. I wouldn't recommend In the Cloud to anyone.

Great idea, great premise good progression on a tech Sci Fi theory that is looking more and more plausible every day. It holds your attention, then it ends......badly. Why go through with the whole story progression when the end doesn't justify, well, the means? What was the conclusion? The answer was that there wasn't any. If you like tech for its own sake, and a story that forgets to end itself, then this is for you. The only conclusion I can draw here, is that they are making a sequel or a series. But rest assured, this audience member won't bight on watching the sequel. What is it with these low budget producers and their reach that exceeds a grasp ego thats a million light years away from reality? Great acting from Gabriel Byrne and the others was wasted on this thing.

Before watching this film, I thought it would be an intelligent, thought-provoking sci-fi thriller, but then after wasting one and half an hour on it, I couldn't be disappointed more. As a reviewer before me pointed out, this movie is about three young scientists, who try to develop a software capable of uploading one's memories, but we see no new technology here. Instead these people are either almost constantly on different drugs or remembering when they were on drugs. How these junkies can be scientists is beyond me, when they are not capable of thinking clearly. Concerning the production values, this film is very cheap. The photography is amateurish (as if high-school students made it) and the sound so bad one can hardly understand the actors. The acting is wooden, with the exception of the performance of Nora Arnezeder (she plays "Z"), who is a very talented actress and tries her best in this drivel, but really deserves to act in better things in the future. In short: This flick is how a high-school student imagines an "innovative" a sci-fi thriller. Please, don't waste your time on it.

Out of three reviews, two of them are gushing 10-star from people who only signed up to IMDB a week or two ago and have no activity other than leaving those reviews. Don't trust them.