Brilliant!

Rating: 10/10 (16 December 2001)

"Vanilla Sky" is a film about staring your own problems in the face and working to overcome them on an emotional and spiritual level. Tom Cruise is marvelous as a man on top of his came when his world begins to fall apart after a near fatal crash. Afterwards, the film jumps around in an effort to contrast Cruise's life before and after his brush with death. In the last second of the film Cruise does something extraordinary as the film comes together as he "sees" life for the first time. Intriguing, thought provoking, moving. "Vanilla Sky" is probably the best film of 2001. I rated it a 10 out of 10. It is truly worth seeing! Penelope Cruz is also mindblowing as Sophia, the woman who saves Cruise. The energy they create together carries the film.