Excellent if you like a real mystery.

Rating: 8/10 (2 January 2005)

If you like to be confused and not really know what is going on, you will love this mystery/science-fiction story. It starts out as a superficial movie about trendy, shallow people and segues into a nightmare where reality and fantasy mix with dreams until no one really knows what is happening inside or outside the movie.
Completely different, but not unlike Memento. It is really dark and complex. Take Arnold in that science fiction movie with Sharon Stone - the one where he doesn't even know who he is, mix it with Spellbound and the other old Gregory Peck movie where he has amnesia and the General is after him, and you have a taste of Vanilla Sky. The first 20 minutes is tough, just get through it. You will love it after that as it starts to unfold like an origami puzzle. Really clever.