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Scary Diaz
This movie really got me looking at C Diaz in a different light... really scary, creepy.
Makes you see that there are consequences to your actions.
Concept is interesting, not one of Tom's best but very entertaining. Makes you wonder what they may be able to do in the future. Enjoyed the movie, not for kids though.

What a let down/disappointment this film was!
Vanilla Sky is quite a disappointment considering the presence of Tom Cruise, Cameron Diaz, Kurt Russell, and Penelope Cruz, among others!
The acting is pretty good (but nothing great), the plot is below average, while the dialogues/lines are way beyond "below average!"
Tom Cruise and the rest of this AMAZING cast are given terrible lines and bad roles. A shame, really...
The dialogues-oh my- the dialogues are beyond words...
As for the plot, school plays (and pre-school for that matter) have better storylines! It is truly sad...
It seems as though the writers/directors/producers decided to go artsy-fartsy on us, following in the dreaded footsteps of other such "films" as It's All About Love and the Russian Ark.
So it's a weak plot, and a GREAT-but-wasted cast and setting, which when put together fail to take off. No masterpiece here.


A happily confusing lark
Vanilla Sky is either a disappointment when viewed against Indie Film standards, or a happily confusing lark when compared to the unending deluge of big budget / low-minded Hollywood that's released weekly.

On the plus side, we find a movie that engages the viewer and the mind. A movie that is certainly confusing at first sitting, it is that rare commodity: the movie we like to talk about later. Like Memento or Barton Fink, people will find themselves dissecting the minutiae of the film after it's over.

Also impressive is the fact that Tom Cruise, one of Hollywood's famed pretty boys, spends at least two-thirds of the film either hidden under a mask, or horribly disfigured. Not a role many other actors would jump to take.

On the down side, Vanilla Sky, (a re-make ?) is basically an Art House or Indie film starring a big Hollywood actor. What could have been an interesting view on the hidden nature of man, or alternate/multiple realities, or even a study on the nature of reality itself, instead ends up like an art house rip-off of Total Recall.

Rating: B- / C+

FYI:
1) When did the universe change so much that "Banky" from Chasing Amy could get a lead role playing opposite Tom Cruise?
2) When did Penelope Cruz get the role of Indecipherable Speaker, ala Brad Pitt in Snatch or Fenster in The Usual Suspects?
3) When did Paul McCartney last have a decent single? Here, with the title track.

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