Battlefield Vanilla?

Rating: 1/10 (17 December 2001)

First, I'm a huge fan of Cameron Crowe's movies and thought that the retrospective "Almost Famous" was just a sign for even better things to come.
I was wrong.
Vanilla Sky is a perfect example of just how desperate Hollywood is for a suitable movie script. Unfortunately, they are using an ultra-talented film maker to display this dreck of a script.
Cameron Crowe, if you are reading this, get back to the golden path you jumped off of too quickly. Get back to the characters that were enjoyable to watch, observe and like.
Don't get me wrong, the acting was phenominal, but what was lacking was the COMMON SENSE to avoid listening to Tom Cruise's beliefs of Scientology being evoked in the script. It smacked of the John Travolta/Stinker of the Year-Battlefield Earth which tried to do the same and wasted a great cast while doing it.
Yes, the main character needed to be "cleansed" of all of the nasty money and beautiful women that were ruining his life, and start anew. I felt like the entire movie was a audit of the main characters life. The only thing missing was two cans attached to E-meter for the audience to hold on to.
I'm going to go now and plug in Citizen Kane into the DVD. Now that is a movie, and hopefully it will make me forget of the nine hard earned dollars I just wasted.