Too much like the original

Rating: Null/10 (21 November 2004)

Cameron Crowe totally copied the whole script from the original, giving his own little thing to fit an English/Hollywood audience. I don't think Crowe's version was convincing enough than the Spanish Version. OPEN YOUR EYES is much better. Penelope Cruz, I think, didn't do any better nor any bad. But Tom Cruise's performance was, I believe, not good enough. Jason Lee, like always, was his best as the much-talking friend that doesn't like to shut up.
If you're going to remake a movie do it well, do it original, and do it for purpose. OK, so i disagreed when Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes was released and it was different to the first and I thought that Tim should not have tried to match the original classic. But Vanilla Sky was was too similar to it's Spanish counterpart, in story, in script, in characters, in ending.
So my tip is: watch the Spanish version, it's much, much, much better.