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Rating: 3/10 (17 December 2001)

Cruise is an excellent actor. It's just a shame he's chosen poor films lately. Vanilla Sky is confusing and essentially a waste of time. The film jumps back and forth to different scenes in an effort to be clever. This gimmick doesn't work.
I had read that the movie had all sorts of twists and turns, so I was prepared to pay attention and really think about what was going on during the course of the 2+ hour film. After what seemed like forever, I looked my watch and noticed time tick, tick, ticking away while few answers had been given for the nonsense being played out on the screen. I keep thinking that the movie wasn't going to be long enough to clean up the mess and finally give the audience the final pieces of the puzzle. It turns out the film didn't need to be any longer, it just needed to be over with because it wasn't going anywhere.
Even a highbrow movie needs to make sense when it's all said and done. Maybe it's me, but when the film came to a screeching halt, I couldn't help but think WHAT??!! Thank goodness for good customer service, I received a refund.