Cheap shot

Rating: 6/10 (22 May 2002)

Filmdom is full of cheap shots; easy ways to bemuse, titillate, shock, etc. in the name of entertainment. The old screeching cat jumping out during a contrived suspenseful moment is one of the cheapest shots. Palming off dreams as reality only to later reveal they were dreams is another. Playing with the time domain is still another. Etc.
In "Vanilla Sky" the makers play with the reality domain while telling a nonstory and loading it up with sensationalistic crap to con the audience into a sense of having been entertained. Beyond that there's no meaningful commentary more profound than looking at billowing cumulus and seeing faces.