Very disappointing

Rating: 3/10 (6 November 2015)

I was not quite sure what to expect with this film, Vanilla Sky (2001) is a remake of Abre los ojos (1997) probably one of Alejandro Amenábar's best films in my opinion.
I've seen a few movies by Cameron Crowe and enjoyed most of them but this is by far his worst film not only does he follow the plot of the original movie but it's simply a carbon copy (even the female lead is the same !) but adapted to the American public, the film is set in New York (instead of Madrid) and the Spanish/Mexican actors are replaced with your usual Hollywood actors.
As for the acting Cruise is very disappointing as he fails to click with his part from the beginning and throughout the movie, Penélope Cruz is simply flat and the sublime Cameron Diaz plays her role as a stalker very well but sadly hardly gets any picture time.
But the worst part of this movie is that the spectator doesn't even get the satisfaction of understanding the story of David Aames as all is explained at the end.As if he was to stupid to put the pieces together and figure it out for himself or at least what he want's to believe.
Nevertheless there is one good thing in this movie and that is it's soundtrack (Jeff Buckley, Bob Dylan, R.E.M, Peter Gabriel...)
Bottom line: watch the original movie and forget about this remake, who is not worth 2 hours of your precious time.