Excellent movie, makes a brilliant innovation of a worn cliché

Rating: 7/10 (26 November 2004)

I realized how highly I thought of this movie only on the second viewing when I couldn't remember how it ended. It is coherent without being transparent, a great achievement in movie storytelling. I remembered several endings as the movie unfolded; all of which were true and none of which were the conclusive one. It takes many twists and turns, all enthralling and ends with the worst twist in movies, "It was all a dream.!" but that's not the end of it either. I thought of a joke that I must share.
Variety may be the spice of life but Vanilla Sky is the splice of life. You have to watch it really to get that. A great movie I reckon.