Underrated - gets better with time

Rating: 8/10 (18 August 2012)

Personally a favorite of mine. The casting of Tom Cruise is spot on; The supporting cast is wonderful. Cameron Crowe took a big risk making this film; A science fiction thriller that you do not realize it is. Looks more like a Tom Cruise vanity film on the surface. based on the 1997 Spanish movie (Open Your Eyes) Crowe has made a masterpiece; Unfortunately with the short attention span of the movie-goer, they did not "get it" nor wish to understand it, nor care a rich guy came back from the dead. Much deeper then that. See it again, or see it for the 1st time. soundtrack is like all Crowe movies 1st rate and heartfelt. Cameron Crowe's Vanilla Sky is a scrupulously moral picture. Roger Ebert's said It tells the story of a man who has just about everything, thinks he can have it all, is given a means to have whatever he wants, and loses it because — well, maybe because he has a conscience. Or maybe not. Maybe just because life sucks. Or maybe he only thinks it does. This is the kind of movie you don't want to analyze until you've seen it two times.