Narcissistic exercise.

Rating: 4/10 (3 September 2002)

"Vanilla Sky" was another Tom Cruise exercise in narcissism. In the movie he suffers the worse possible fate. His pretty face is scarred. I found the first half of this movie to be rather nauseating. The main characters seem to be a mutual admiration society always telling each other how great they were. There was a scene in Penélope Cruz's apartment where Tom Cruise looks at pictures on the refrigerator. The pictures were all of Penélope Cruz. I did a survey over the weekend of my family's refrigerator pictures and most were of other people or of them with other people. My own refrigerator is covered with pictures of nieces and nephews. I found this scene strange that a person puts their own pictures all over the refrigerator. I wonder if the Hollywood types even caught this. The second half of the movie was somewhat better in a Sci-fi sort of way. I had a real hard time caring for the main actors though. There was no empathy developed because of their self-centered, inward looking lives. They seem to care for nothing but their own reflection. If you are in love with the main actors as much as they are in love with themselves then see the movie. If not miss it.