One of the five or ten best of the year

Rating: Null/10 (22 October 2003)

This is one of the five or ten decent movies made in 2001. My main argument in favor of this opinion is the film's originality. It's screenplay was not vomited from a Hollywood formula. I heard that Vanilla Sky is a poor remake of a foreign film, but that's much better than a formulaic film. MOST Americans have little interest in foreign films so maybe this could spark a small interest in a few.
I won't give a plot summary (I find them superfluous), but will say the movie contains competent acting and decent dialogue (although cheesy at times). I've heard some say the movie was confusing and incoherent but I disagree. However, it does require more attention than most movies that oh say Tom Cruise is in. He is great in this movie (even though he manages to sneak in his patented overacted, seizure-like, fantastic smiling fits). He was only better in Eyes Wide Shut (in which he refrained from said fits-no doubt ordered by Kubrick).
Take it from Dallas babe and go and see the movie. Then I challenge you to name five better films made that year.