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| Vanilla Sky | 
| Category: Movie
Buy New: $2.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  789 reviews
Sales Rank: 3507
Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: Video On Demand
Running Time: 136 minutes
ASIN: B000IZ8VDK
Theatrical Release Date: December 13, 2001
Release Date: October 1, 2008 (New: Last 30 Days)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 I really enjoyed it August 6, 2007
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
So I sat down to give Vanilla Sky a viewing, without reading much about it and just hoping it was even mildly interesting and thought-provoking. It turned out to be a well made movie, with some good performances, and decently thought-provoking as well!
Tom plays a wealthy playboy heir with one of his big hobbies being to get laid all the time and then cast the women aside when he gets bored of them. One day he appears to have broken one heart too many and his life is changed forever. He ends up in an accident, disfigured, in excruciating pain. He thinks the board of directors is out to steal his inherited company. Him and his friend have fallen for the same woman and he thinks he'll lose her because of his problems now. And from there it's down the rabbit hole... some force in his mind is degenerating... his dreams become nightmares and he can't tell what sanity is. Kurt Russell plays a psychologist who tries to coax it out of him and solve a crime.
That's about as far as I can go without explaining the truth of the plot revealed at the end. Suffice to say, it's something out of left field. I thought Cruise, while being his usual androidal self that does a good job at least of pretending to be human, did a capable job and the rest of cast are even better. Even Cameron Diaz had an effective scene which is remarkable. Penelope Cruz does the best job though, lighting up a relationship triangle with her humor and naturalness.
I'll have to see the original some time since it seems by a lot of consensus, Cruise took some rather crude liberties with the film. However, watching it as I did, without any of that in mind, I'd be lying if I said I didn't enjoy it.
Romance + Science Fiction August 3, 2007
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
You will probably either love or hate Vanilla Sky, but giving away too much about the plot to help you decide might ruin the experience of watching it for the first time. My advice: if you liked both Sabrina (or Sabrina) and The Matrix, give this movie a chance. It's a mixture of romance and science fiction that won't appeal to everyone, but if it works for you it will work very well.
I avoided Vanilla Sky at the theater because I'm not a big fan of Cruise or Diaz, but both are well-cast here--as is most of the cast, from Penelope Cruz (reprising her role from the original version, Open Your Eyes) to minor roles like "the seven dwarves" and the bartender in the club scene. There's a lot packed into this movie (check out the director's commentary) and I suspect everyone will take away something different as the most important theme. It's definitely a movie I'll watch more than once.
 A Must See Once in Your Life! July 5, 2007
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
A unique concept - Crazy - Multiple Twists - What is going on here!
Those are all the things I thought as I saw this movie about 4 times. The concept is not as unique as the presentation of the concept is! At times you'll think the presentation is very crazy, but you have to find out what in the world is going on in this movie, because of all the twists and turns! Did it or did it not! Is he or is he not! I can't give it 5 stars because it was a tad too crazy! This is probably a love it or hate it movie! Enjoy, I did!
you have to be open-minded May 30, 2007
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
extremely complex film, very cameron crowe with the wonderful music selections and infinite details you would never pick up on until the fifth or sixth or twentieth viewing
i may be biased bc i enjoy penelope cruz very much. i thought it was a great film and something very different. atleast view it once!
When the Dream Dies, Open Your Eyes February 19, 2007
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
Spoiler Alert: Skip this review if you don't want to know the ending.
Cruise's rich, handsome and happily shallow character has bought himself a custom-made Heaven. This heaven comes complete with his favorite sky, a vanilla-colored sky patterned after his late mother's Monet painting. The catch is that he doesn't know he's dreaming and that his peculiar heaven will eventually turn hellish. In fact, after 150 years of dreaming of the bliss of finding and winning his dearest and most true love Sofia, he first suspects and then rages that it's not real at all, but a nightmare. Strands of Hindu mysticism are subtly woven through this film, hinting of something beautifully infinite and strange. The movie's soundtrack heightens the mood and mind-bending confusion of this film, and it may turn the screws to your mind at times, leaving you spinning and feeling off center. If you don't understand the bad and the good vibrations that flow through this film, then--to paraphrase Penelope Cruz's character--maybe you will in another lifetime, when you are a cat.
In summary, I think this movie is worth watching more than once; so go ahead and get the DVD. There are many things to admire about it. For me, the romantic idea of being blissfully and timelessly sustained in a dream about finding one's true love is sweeter than a vanilla sky.
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