Crowe and Cruise team up for a pretentious, minor mind trip for the easily satisfied.

Rating: Null/10 (28 May 2002)

This big-budget exercise ends up being another American hack job on a foreign film. The original Spanish version (OPEN YOUR EYES) was only moderately interesting, so I ended up waiting for the VANILLA version on DVD. It's trippy in a nostalgic way that explains why Crowe got excited over it all. All the performances are flat and much of the dialogue is as annoying and pretentious as most reviewers say it is. The addition to the DVD of a couple of featurettes on the making and publicizing of the film make the feature seem over-hyped and self-congratulatory and should probably have been left off the disc. VANILLA SKY is a mediocre diversion at best.