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Vanilla Sky

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Vanilla Sky

Tom Cruise, Penelope Cruz, Cameron Diaz, Kurt Russell, Timothy Spall, Tilda Swinton

A successful publisher finds his life taking a turn for the surreal after a car accident with a jaded lover.

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  • SirPant
    September 18, 2009
    SirPant
    A terrible remake of Spanish film Open your eyes. Kurt Russell's performance was good but everything else in this film is awful. Cruise & Crowe are probably my least favourite director/actor partnership ever!
  • irisheyes686
    February 28, 2009
    irisheyes686
    This was one of the worst movies I've ever seen. So boring and pointless.
  • wellmeetagain
    November 14, 2008
    wellmeetagain
    I enjoyed this movie. I thought about it alot after watching it. Cruise does a good job in this one. Want to see "Abre los Ojos" which it is based on.
  • DrZeek
    August 5, 2008
    DrZeek
    Brian: We almost died, man... And do you know what I saw?
    David: What?
    Brian: Your all life flashing in front of me...
    David: And how was it?
    Brian: Almost worth dying for...

    Tom Cruise is given the chance to play a rich, handsome, playboy with women problems. Not too far of a ...( read more)stretch. Anyway, he and Cameron Crowe reunite to make a different kind of movie. Instead of a light romantic comedy, we get a trippy, rollercoaster ride of a movie, full of interesting ways to interpret it.

    Describing this movie is a challenge, so I wont go into too much detail, but it involves Cruise playing David Ames, a rich boy, working as the owner in his father's former company. He meets a new girl, spends a wonderful night with her, and then a tragic event changes his life. He becomes a different person, where even his mind begins to mess with him. Its a strange sort of romance drama, with a reality warp-type twist.

    Sofía: I'll tell you in another life, when we are both cats.

    There is also a very good supporting cast that includes Penelope Cruz who has very good chemistry with Cruise and played the same role in the original version of this film, Cameron Diaz as more than a ditzy blonde, which is nice. Then we also have Kurt Russel, who just can't dial down his coolness in whatever he's in and Jason Lee in complete, hilarious sidekick mode.

    Dr. Curtis McCabe: My favorite Beatle was once John. Now it's... Paul.

    The soundtrack, like in all Crowe movies is great. It's one of my favorites, especially the song written by Paul McCartney for this movie, "Vanilla Sky."

    If Crowe had more experience in crafting this type of movie, it could have been even better, but it's still good. It works for me because of how different it is to see Cruise almost playing himself in a way, thrown into a wild mess of a life. It's also certainly better on repeated viewings, due to various interpretations and being able to pick up on more little moments.

    Edmund: There are no guarantees, but remember: Even in the future, the sweet is never as sweet without the sour.
  • jagfire
    April 3, 2008
    jagfire
    A surprisingly intelligent and exciting movie altogether. It's a romance/thriller with a bit of science fiction thrown in. Suberb acting from Cruise and Cruz. It has a very enjoyable (maybe annoying for some) ending that will make you want to enjoy it a first time then watch it a...( read more)gain to get the full impact. Gotta be one of film's most surprising and entertaining endings.
  • medoteto
    October 30, 2009
    medoteto
    Philosophical film first-class.
  • elainedonnelly
    October 22, 2009
    elainedonnelly
    Different but moving. I liked it.
  • kerberos19
    October 21, 2009
    kerberos19
    HORRIBLE!!!! A TOTAL WASTE OF TIME!
  • Phonex
    October 14, 2009
    Phonex
    This is a twist on the original version of this character, conceived as a wholly arrogant and willfully ignorant guy, harder to like than a character Tom Cruise would play (even his dick-salesman in Magnolia has his redemptive tears). As you probably already know, Vanilla Sky is ...( read more)a remake of Alejandro Amenábar's 1997 Abre Los Ojos (Open Your Eyes). (And in case you haven't kept up with the melodrama, Amenábar also wrote and directed this summer's elegant scary movie, The Others, produced by Cruise and his partner Paula Wagner, and starring, of course, the ex-Mrs. Cruise.) Where Amenábar's Cesar (played by the dazzling Eduardo Noriega), is mesmeric, egotistical, and boldly juvenile, David is more like Jerry Maguire, foolish but righteously motivated, by leftover fear of a overbearing, now dead, super-exec father.
  • Ivan6655321
    October 12, 2009
    Ivan6655321
    Unique, imaginative, breathtaking, but maybe too melodramatic. Tom Cruise arguably gave his top performance(rivaled by "Magnolia") which gave the purely visual film its beating heart. An above-average film that is very beautiful, yet very hard to swallow all in one sitting.
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