At last! The title makes sense!

Rating: Null/10 (15 July 2003)

Before I saw this film that title made no sense to me. Now it does.

***SPOILERS AHEAD!***
It's a bit like Sixth Sense, in that it's not until the end when it all makes sense, and you could go back to the beginning and pick up on all the clues. In Sixth Sense it was the different coloured door handle, in this it's the titular Vanilla Sky.
I do have one rather obvious question about this movie, and I'm sure I'm not the first to ask it - If David could choose when his real life ended and the dream began, why didn't he pick the night he spent with Cruze before he got into the car with his psycho girlfriend? That way he need never have had the crash, complete with scars. I guess the answer is that it wouldn't have made for a very interesting movie. Also, perhaps if he had done that he would have just got into the car with her again anyway. Who knows.
This is a good movie. It's got too much sex in it, but it does make you think, which doesn't happen enough in films these days. I've never seen the original so I can't compare them, but it does seem as though Crowe and Cruise have done a good job.