My first 9 in a long time - maybe spoilers !

Rating: 9/10 (8 October 2002)

First of all, I must say it's brilliant to see how international this site is !
I had been terribly disappointed with AI so I feared this movie was going to be of the same juice being Sci-Fi as well. But no ! It was really good, great technology, those "spiders" were something else ! Tom Cruise plays Tom Cruise and I guess Vanilla Sky was a perfect warming-up exercise for him in order to play MR afterwards (when he gets disfigured especially). I have no problems with the product placements. At least it gives us a good idea about how invading advertising could become in the future. I certainly hope that places like the cyber/virtual reality "cafe" will one day open, no no I don't want to kill my boss !!
One thing that bothers me is "spoiler !!" that you would expect that for security reasons "they" would have canceled his security access, especially to enter the temple, once he was supposed to be the "bady". But no, he can still use his retina as a sesame, OK you will say but how would he have got inside otherwise ?, well why not using the pregnant black lady character as an accomplice, you barely see her in the film but she seemed to really like the boss so this could have been an option.
I don't mind the end, what's wrong with "happy endings" anyway ?!!