"..It wanted to be weird, but was scared of being too weird"

Rating: Null/10 (22 February 2002)

That is a quote from a comment I read in my local paper reviews right after I saw this movie (I enjoy reading reviews and comments after I see the movie, to see if I agree) and that described the movie perfectly, to me. But, the reviewer was saying it as if it were a bad thing. I thought it was a good thing. I hated 'A Clockwork Orange' and 'Blue Velvet', so I consider myself a person that isn't big with surreal-type movies, but that is why I liked 'Vanilla Sky'. Because it was weird but not too weird. And the end was great, and believe me, I'm first to say if something has a cop-out ending, like most of Stephen King movies and aaaaaaalmost 'Fight Club' (Fight Club made up for it by being a great movie). It was weird but, say it with me, not too weird. And Penelope Cruz makes me want to be best friends with her, why, because the part she played was "the perfect woman", and she did it wonderfully. Don't get me wrong, I would still debate buying the DVD if the extra features include only letterbox and Digital sound, but I like being able to say that I finally like a weird movie. Hooray!