| Vanilla Sky [Region 2] |  | Director: Cameron Crowe
Actors: Tom Cruise, Penélope Cruz, Cameron Diaz, Kurt Russell, Jason Lee
Category: DVD
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Rating:  791 reviews
Sales Rank: 290225
Format: PAL
Languages: English (Subtitled), English (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 2
Discs: 1
Running Time: 136 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.2 x 0.6
EAN: 5014437817235
ASIN: B00005U8P6
Theatrical Release Date: December 14, 2001
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Vanilla Sky reunites director Cameron Crowe (Jerry Maguire) with über-playboy Tom Cruise, adds another sexy Cruz (Penélope) and Cameron Diaz for good measure, and delivers a wildly entertaining, bizarre venture into erotic science fiction. Adapted near exactly from Spanish filmmaker Alejandro Amenábar's 1997 romantic thriller Open Your Eyes, the film follows David Aames (Cruise) as he falls from his graceful Manhattan perch of inordinate wealth, good looks, and newfound love with Sofia (Cruz) because of severe facial disfigurement in a car accident caused by a suicidal ex-lover (Diaz). What at first promises to be a conventional allegory of redemption via true love is turned on its head as Cruise's character, reduced to wearing a latex mask and spurned by his friends, wins back his princess only after a miracle of plastic surgery restores his former beauty. A series of plot twists follows as waking life, technological advances, and nightmares flip-flop to dizzying effect and David ultimately comes face to face with his own mortality. Despite a final conceit to some vague morality, the appeal of the film is the wonderfully callous message conveyed by the rest of it (money and physical beauty equal happiness) through an unabashed vanity perfectly embodied by Cruise and Cruz. A delicious, decadent treat. --Fionn Meade
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 Formula and predictable February 5, 2010
bernie (Arlington, Texas)
Undisciplined son of a corporate magnet inherits the company and position. He struggles with the Board, manipulating women, and life it's self. An automobile accident forces him to reassess life and his friends.
The only positive value of the film is it passes time well there are several cuties in it among which are Penelope Cruz, and Cameron Diaz. Kurt Russell does some good acting on his part.
This movie is formula and predictable. Formula as many variations of this are overused such as in "The Matrix." There is no mask or detraction as to what they are trying to do.
The bulk of the movie is disjointed Sound Bites, and flashbacks (or forwards or whatever.)
Bottom line, it is a take it or leave it film that passes time.
 Very `vanilla'... January 12, 2010
Andrew Ellington (Mulholland Drive)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
One of the first things you'll notice about `Vanilla Sky' is that it is a very visual piece. From the opening canvas of empty streets, `Vanilla Sky' is almost too beautifully crafted. It is within this visual mask that we are expected to completely fall, and thus we lose sight of the fact that this film really doesn't do much more.
Seriously, it's pretty but is there really anything else that can be said for it?
The film tells a very familiar tale (or at least `morally') about a man who has everything (or so it appears) because of his dashing good looks and his endless supply of wealth only to have it taken all away by a jealous lover who despises him because of his despicable personality. Sadly, this tragic intervention (his lover drives him, literally, into the hospital) comes at the precise moment when this devilishly self-absorbed creep falls madly in love with a mysterious woman who offers him the opportunity (and motivation) to become a better man.
If you feel the above paragraph is cliché ridden and rather generic, you'd be correct.
The best thing I can say about `Vanilla Sky' is that Crowe paints with such an expansive and stirring paintbrush that we never really realize how dense and contrived the film really is. We do get wrapped up in the splendor of his `vision' to the point where the films ridiculousness (and rather clumsy and chaotic plot twists) doesn't really hit us. Maybe that should be considered praise, since Cameron Crowe made something stupid appear poignant and `deep', but I don't know if I can praise it.
It's like putting lipstick on a pig; right?
That was rather harsh, I know, but further reflection on this film has really embittered me, because I was so duped by Crowe's directorial achievements (you can't really say this was a good directorial job either, when you consider some of the performances).
Tom Cruise is a generic and fictitious representation of what we all have probably come to consider his real self. He is flamboyant and self concerned and borderline insane. Penelope Cruz may have ended this decade on a very high note (her performances post 06 have been stellar) but she started this decade horrifically. Is it just me, or has she even gotten prettier over the decade? I really thought that she was a talentless and extremely unattractive woman until I saw `Volver'. She is bland and ineffective here. Jason Lee can't do drama well at all. It is apparent here. The whole `Kurt Russell plot point' is just the worst part of the film for me, even if his performance is effective and sound.
CAMERON DIAZ.
That is all I need to say here. I mean, she is the only reason to see this movie, and the only reason I will recommend this movie, beings that her performance is so stellar and so superb and so masterful and seriously one of the best supporting turns of the decade. The way she handles Julie's instability and ruthless jealousy (and bitter emotional devastation) is just so impressive I can't help but bow at just the thought of her flirtatious and manic threats.
YOU CANNOT STOP LOOKING AT HER.
Upon distanced reflection it becomes obvious that `Vanilla Sky' is just not the film it is pretending to be. You want to like it, love it even, because it is visually stirring, which gives the impression that there is something there to be seen. The prolific (or faux prolific) statements made with the delicately disguised sets are not enough to make this a good film.
Cameron Diaz is enough to make me recommend this very poor movie though.
 Vanilla Sky January 5, 2010
Arnita D. Brown (USA)
A young playboy is disfigured in a car accident. Ashamed, the man uses his money to reconstruct his face. Although the preocedure appears to be successful, he begins to have nightmares that hint that all in his world is not as it seems. A trip worth taking and highly entertaining.
 I just don't see it... September 9, 2009
J. E. Martin (Nebraska)
After reading the comparisons here in the reviews between the two movies "Vanilla Sky" and "Abre Los Ojos," I thought I'd see what the fuss was about from those suggesting/arguing that the latter was so much greater than the other. Perhaps opinion in this, as with most everyhting, will inevitably depend upon the person giving it, but still, I don't agree with this sentiment at all.
Sure, there are some idiosyncrosies in Crowe's style, but all in all, Vanilla Sky came across as a much more well pieced together story than Ojos, from character development (including Cruz's), scripting, the matter of piecing together the bits and pieces that comprise the timeline of the movie, and in the acting (I particularly felt Cruise did much better than his counterpart). I believe the real selling point for myself in choosing VS over Ojos is simply that it goes more deeply into the themes carrying the story to its closing, ie, some of the observations of the manner in how the actions/attitudes we carry on in our day to day lives can be so affecting (ironic, however, that Cruise's involvement with Cruz while creating this film led to the dissolution of his marriage).
It's just a pretty darn good flick. In my opinion.
Abre los Ojos July 4, 2009
J. White (Georgia)
Clearly, this movie isn't for everyone. As many people love it as hate it. But I think it's amazing. It's a great love story that seems to defy genre classification. To me it's more than a rent and I'm glad to own it, but I'd recommend anyone who hasn't seen it to rent it first; you may hate it.
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