Definitely not for loves of Hollywood trash.

Rating: Null/10 (3 January 2002)

It's not particularly surprising to find such a multitude of disparaging remarks about such a wonderful mind-blowing experience. The original 1997 movie by Alejandro Amenábar, "Abre los Ojos", for all intents and purposes was an artistic and intellectually-stimulating piece of cinema merely intended for an artistically-minded audience at arthouse theatres. Cameron Crowe, should therefore have figured out by now, that no matter how hard one tries, the majority of the mainstream audience will never even make an attempt to understand and appreciate anything which is considered offbeat.
Whoever goes to their local multiplex would definitely expect to see the usual Harry Potters and America Pies, so it's basically pointless to ever try introducing such movie-goers to a movie whose roots lie in European arthouse(although one can't really say Abre los Ojos is a typical European movie). Moreover, the Amenábar's original is an excellent movie in its own right, and the biggest flaw of it all was to actually dream of doing its remake in the first place. So why not keep things simple, and leave what is not intended for mainstream away from the mainstream?