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Summary: Awful!!
Review: I don't even care how many 'Unhelpful' votes I get for this review, I can't contain myself. This was honestly the worst--no wait, second worst-- movie I have EVER seen! How could people describe this as a good movie? Even describing it as 'not horrible' is beyond me.First, all of the characters were completely flat. They all seemed the same to me, I really couldn't care less what happened to any of them. Tom Cruise's character was especially vain and annoying. I can't believe so many people find it enjoyable to sit and watch him for two hours. Second, if you want to make a film with a surprise ending that makes people think, you have to at least leave clues leading up to it. You can't just make up a completely ridiculous explination for something and stick it on the end of a movie. Perhaps the filmmaker should have borrowed a couple tips from M. Night Shyamalan. Instead of having an amazed reaction upon the ending of the movie, I was in complete shock that anyone would be stupid enough to end a film that way. Apparenly, to completely understand the film, one should watch it a second time. Are you kidding me!? I just wasted two hours of my life watching it the first time. There's no way I would ever voluntarily waste another two hours to be completely bored out of my mind for a second time. Basically, if you have any sense at all, you will stay away from this film. I'm warning you now, this is two hours of your life you will never get back! I'm dead serious, don't blame me if you ignore this review and think, "Well, it can't possibly be THAT bad, not with such stars as Tom Cruise, Penelope Cruz, and Cameron Diaz. Perhaps I'll give it a chance..." When you finish it and realize I was right, all I'll be able to say is "I told you so!"
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Summary: A retread from Crowe and Cruise
Review: This reworking of Open Your Eyes just does not work. Despite the obvious efforts of everyone concerned, they cannot meet the level of their previous version. This is a retread of the work of the rightly acclaimed Alejandro Amenábar's 1997 work, and the film has nothing more to offer. Only the arrival of the technical support gives the film any life at all. Tom Cruise shows the limitations of his acting in this film. Cameron Diaz is intolerably beautiful and cannot hit the note required. Penelope Cruz phones in her part. Sometimes Hollywood can remake a film very well, but they cannot in this case.
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Summary: Brain-freezing, mind numbing, over the top vanity project
Review: The only other movie to which this can be compared would be "Eyes Wide Shut", another Tom Cruise and female partner vanity project. They are both long, confusing, dark and depressing movies, and one can only assume that director Cameron Crowe was thinking of Stanley Kubrick all the way through. What was Kurt Russell thinking? This is not his type of role, and it doesn't suit him. Jason Lee is also out of place, and should return to his usual director Kevin Smith and apologise for straying away from his niche roles. Cameron Diaz is definitely not angelic, and Penelope Cruz just looks like a beautiful lost waif, shooting adoring looks at Tom Cruise, who gives one of his trademark teeth baring, handsome, but tortured hero performances. Intellectual minds would advise that the movie be watched more than once to understand the deeper meaning, and experience the cinematography, but that would be far too much torture for the average human brain (and backside) to endure. Give me a movie that can be seen in under two hours, and enjoyed straight away. This isn't one of them.
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Summary: Skip this and go straight to Abre Los Ojos
Review: I saw Abre Los Ojos before I saw Vanilla Sky and really liked it. I rented Vanilla Sky because my wife wanted to compare the two, and really if you want the essence of this story, skip Vanilla Sky. It is a shameless Cruise/Diaz vehicle that takes all the mystery, ambiguity, and interpretational opportunities out of the original and spells everything out for you in the last scene. Apparently it was necessary to dumb it down for all the 14 year old girls who would attend. Not to mention the terrible acting job of Kurt Russell and Jason Lee. Even Penelope Cruz's performance went down significantly in this version, she seems very concerned about sounding cute speaking English with an accent as opposed to acting well. This film is so chock full of distracting pop music that adds NOTHING to the scenes which it is played over. It's SO annoying. There should have been a score for this film, not a best selling soundtrack. I guess if you really like Hollywood-ified remakes, this may be your cup of tea, but the original is still MUCH better in every possible aspect.
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Summary: A steaming pile of...
Review: One of the worst movies I've ever seen. The audience was laughing, it was so bad. The only refreshing moment was when Cameron Diaz's pathetic character says, "I swallowed your ... That means something!" -- the best laugh of the entire movie.
Rating: 
Summary: okay
Review: it was okay if you can suspend belief. otherwise don't see it. it's a waste of time.
Rating: 
Summary: One of the BEST movies I have ever experienced!
Review: This is not a movie but rather an experience you will not soon forget. It gets better each time I watch it and my DVD is worn thoroughly. Excellent acting and an amzing story. Why cant Hollywood make more movies like this? I cant believe this wasnt the best film of its year and instead of that waste of time "A Beautiful Mind".
GET THIS ASAP!
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Summary: Terrible Ending
Review: I was absolutely in love with this movie for the first 3 quarters. I thought that I would have to realign my list of best movies ever. I was really confused as to how they would end it, but didn't expext what they did. THEY RUINED IT. So anyway, the ending is way to far out and just not done well in my opinion. I wish someone else could produce a better ending for this film so I could enjoy the entirety of it.
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Summary: Sometimes Original is best
Review: Although it has the power presence of Tom Cruise, Vanilla Sky failed to top the original "Abre Los Ojos". Cruise may be a power house but there are some emotions, feelings and definitely outbursts that do NOT translate from Spanish to English and thats something that the producers failed to predict. Although I still like the original much much much better, I believe Vanilla Sky is an "ok" interpretation. Cameron Diaz was SUPERB! If you can actually sit, relax and go deeper into the film you will definitely like it. However Abre los Ojos is definitely a must see for those who liked this film.
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Summary: Fall from the sky
Review: It takes only ten minutes to understand this movie is going nowhere. I didn't see the Spanish original so my review is only about this version.
Safe for the starting sequence, shot in a tremendous deserted Times Square, everything from then on is just pretentious, trying to mean a lot and eventually failing to say anything.
Bad script, mediocre acting, very good soundtrack though. But it's really not enough.
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