Words cannot describe the irritation

Rating: 1/10 (10 April 2005)

Urgh..., or various other guttural noises is about as near as I can get to describing my feelings toward this film.
This weekend, Channel 4 in the UK showed the original Spanish "Abre Los Ojos" (written by Alejandro Amenabar and Mateo Gil and directed by Amenabar) late on Friday night followed by a prime-time showing of this Hollywood version on the Saturday. Vanilla Sky is virtually a scene for scene remake of Abre Los Ojos and is the same, except nearly all the suspense, ambiguity and excellent acting and basically anything else which made the original good has been sucked out to be replaced by lazy pop cultural references, melodrama and repetition after repetition of plot developments just so the most idiotic of viewer can follow.
To anyone who thought they liked this film: watch the original and you will see how much of a bland and lackadaisical remake this really is.