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| Vanilla Sky | 
| Category: Movie
Buy New: $2.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  788 reviews
Sales Rank: 2546
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: This Week)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 Original and compelling January 7, 2007
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
Vanilla Sky is an interesting examination of the human psyche. Cruise plays the handsome but arrogant tycoon who gets his face disfigured in a car accident. I think it's an amazing concept to ponder what a drastic blow to the ego this would be. Tom shows a great deal of courage with this role.
I also really enjoyed Cameron Diaz's performance. She's more known for her happy, goofy personality. But here she is the insanely jealous lover. She's attractive, controlling, and vindictive, every guys nightmare.
This movie jumps around and can be confusing the first time watching it. Overall it's a good story, but the individual characters and their interactions are the best part.
 What a let down/disappointment this film was! August 3, 2006
5 out of 14 found this review helpful
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 July 5, 2006
3 out of 7 found this review helpful
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.
A highly enjoyable journey June 7, 2006
2 out of 8 found this review helpful
This movie contains a large plot 'twist' at the end which changes the entire movie up until then (for the better), but unlike many other such movies, this twist doesn't hurt the movie on repeat viewings.
If anything, repeated viewings are more enjoyable than the first, as the characters and situations make more sense in light of the movie's 'truth.'
 Subpar remake of a subpar rip-off of a subpar movie. June 3, 2006
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
The concept is the same as total recall. Vanilla sky had potential, but the viewers hand is held in the end ,like we are retards, and everything is explained in one scene. I did enjoy this movie at one point, but when the entire idea is relayed in the end, it became stupid. Better than alot of Tom Cruise garbage, but not good overall.
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