Vanilla Sky Critic Reviews
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Highly entertaining, erotic science-fiction thriller that takes Mr. Crowe into Steven Spielberg territory.Read the full review
This is the kind of movie you don't want to analyze until you've seen it two times. Now that I've seen it twice, I think I understand it, or maybe not. Certainly it's entertaining as it rolls along.Read the full review
Crowe's tantalizing film sticks with you.Read the full review
The picture has vitality, a fine cast and excellent craftRead the full review
What works in a quirky foreign film can look silly with expansive Hollywood treatment. Crowe is smart enough to know this, so it's baffling he chose Vanilla over richer cinematic tastes.Read the full review
Though Vanilla Sky is smoothly and professionally done, even audiences who haven't seen the original will sense there is something off in the translation.Read the full review
The film's aim -- to dazzle and inspire -- is sapped by Cruise's vein-popping, running-the-marathon performance.Read the full review
For all the filmmakers' efforts, this project is something of an artistic albatross. It's a conundrum that doesn't get answered until a sort of help-the-audience Cliffs Notes final scene, in which we learn Everything. But by then, more than a few of us may be wondering, was it all really worth the trouble?Read the full review
If Crowe's eyes are open, he seems to have directed most of Vanilla Sky with his mind wide shut.Read the full review
It's no wonder that Crowe can't generate any real feeling. The narrative is alien to him on every level. The ear-grating dialogue is a good indication that he didn't know what he was doing; he's usually pitch-perfect.Read the full review
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