Doesn't Quite Hit the Mark

Rating: 4/10 (2 June 2006)

VANILLA SKY (136 minutes in length) was far too long...far too tedious...far too often exasperatingly confusing for the "message" it had to deliver. The concept, however, was actually quite (sci-fi-ishly) captivating, despite the fact it had already been presented before via "The Outer Limits" and "Amazing Stories" (i.e., cryogenic freezing in conjunction with lucid dreaming). If you haven't seen VANILLA SKY already, well...if you're a rabid Tom Cruise fan, you just might be able to raise your tolerance level high enough, so that (unlike this writer) you won't have to sit through the film nervously fidgeting and fast-forwarding -- and wishing, at the end, it had managed to live up to its full potential.
Joel Kovacik