OPEN YOUR EYES WIDE SHUT/WAKE-UP CALL

Rating: Null/10 (19 December 2001)

VANILLA SKY (2001) ***1/2 Filmmaker Cameron Crowe's bold, introspective mind-bending adaptation/re-make of Alejandro Amenabar's "Abre Los Ojos" ("Open Your Eyes") providing a showcase of Cruise's acting as a successful magazine magnate who finds himself in an identity crisis and determine what is real or imagined. Cruz is his mysterious amor and Diaz his deeply-troubled "f*** buddy". Uncompromising and hypnotic echoing Kubrick's "Eyes Wide Shut", "Jacob's Ladder" and "Memento" to name a few yet outstanding on its own merits.