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| Vanilla Sky | 
| Category: Movie
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Avg. Customer Rating:  787 reviews
Sales Rank: 12560
Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: Video On Demand
Running Time: 136 minutes
ASIN: B000IZ8VDK
Theatrical Release Date: December 13, 2001
Release Date: November 13, 2008 (New: Last 30 Days)
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| Customer Reviews:
 4 1/2 stars - Truly Bizarre! March 3, 2006
5 out of 8 found this review helpful
WOW! This is a truly bizzare film. There are a lot of genres here including romance, sci-fi and mystery... Tom Cruise and all of the co-stars including Cruz, Cameron, Russell and Mewes are excellent. The use of music in this film is so bizarre, but it really works and the choice in music is great for this type of film (Wait for "Good Vibrations"). If you like David Lynch type films, you'll definitely enjoy this. Also, if you enjoyed films like "Lost In Translation", "What Dreams May Come", "Memento" or "Fight Club", you should definitely invest the over two hours it takes to watch this film. This one is a truly original ride!
Hollywood at it's best! February 9, 2006
14 out of 17 found this review helpful
Just Fantastic! Yes, that's the way I always react whenever I see this movie or talk about it. There are very few movies that have left their mark in my heart and memory and this is one of them. Tom Cruise is at its best. A very challenging role for most, but he just did it so naturally. In fact, I was not a Cruise fan until I saw this movie.
The movie is very touching, and takes you on the emotional rollercoaster ride throughout the movie. It is sad to see that many people failed to understand the movie, and that explains the reason it didn't did well on the box-office. If you are a kind of mature viewer, you will understand this movie and love it too. For me, it was worth buying this DVD!
Couldn't be better January 31, 2006
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
I'm not going to write a huge review here but just a few things I'd like to add. Firstly I'd just like to say don't believe the critics and see the original version of this film. This version is by far the better of the two. It irritates me when people just say the original is better to appear intellectual. As if it's cooler to say the original will always be the best. Critics like to pick holes in any remake with be name actors and actresses. However, this is an excellent example of superior directing, acting, writing, screenplay etc. . .
Never has a film been so complimented by its music. You can tell that much thought has gone into the songs chosen and it works incredibly well. You can tell that each song means something to the film makers involved and most probably to you also. You will find yourself pausing the credits to write down a big list of albums to get the next time you go music shopping.
That's all I wanted to say.
xo
David
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Open your eyes...for if you don't you'll miss everything this film stands for! January 17, 2006
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
David (Cruise) is a vain self loving man who takes for granted everything that he has. He's never worked for anything but had everything handed to him by those around him. Even his on-again-off-again F@#$-buddy Julie (Diaz) gives him everything she can regandless of how he treats her. His best friend played by Jason Lee is a loyal friend dispite the fact that David disregards his feelings on the drop of a dime, even going as far as to take the one woman that his friend really "digs"...that woman being the exotic Sofia (Cruz), a guest at his birthday party, a guest that his Jason Lee brings as a date but she ends up taking David home. At this point of the film you really dislike this guy. He rich, good looking and pretty much better than everyone else, and he knows it, so he flaunts it. Then the morning comes, and with the sun comes a gloomy day, a very gloomy day. Julie meets David outside Sofia's apartment and confronts him about his feelings for Sofia. She tells him she loves him and that she needs him and then...BAM! she drives him off a bridge and into a wall and here is where you need to open your eyes! From that point on the film spirals down towards an ending that wil have you guessing. From the murder charge he can't explain nor understand to the life he can't be living and the dreams/nightmares that he is having and theres this guy that keeps showing up in bars and clubs and he's almost everywhere that David turns. WHO IS THIS MAN? Open your eyes...you'll see him very soon. The acting is superb on the parts of the lesser players. Diaz gives an oscar worthy performance as proven by her SAG nomination for the part and Jason Lee as the loyal yet betrayed best friend and even Kurt Russell as his shrink trying to understand the mess he's in does a great job. The movie will have you guessing and it may even take 2 or 3 watches to fully get what's going on but it's well worth the time spent. Great concept for a film and I hear it's a remake of a film starring Penelope Cruz called 'Open your Eyes'...can't judge between the two beings that I've never seen the first one but from the other reviews I gather that this version is the better of the 2...Watch it and love it and remember to open your eyes...the answers are right in front of you...literally!
 This is a great film but I won't watch it again. January 8, 2006
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
This film is excellent and I own the DVD but I probably will not watch it again unless it is with someone who never saw it. Like A and I another excellent film, it is just two much of a downer. Those downer movies usually don't bother me but this one did.
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