I'm trying to 'open my eyes' to Vanilla Sky but I keep on falling a.ZZZZzzzzzzzz!

Rating: 1/10 (25 January 2003)

Why is it that Hollywood makes a fine mess out foreign films! especially when they are made by a Genius such as Alejandro Amenabar.
Instead it was americanised, and trying to have more humour but it does not work - It is a bad remake of Abre los Ojos.
Tom Cruise was so annoying and kept on grinning, and acted more like the elephant man, I would not consider him to play a Handsome person, his face was still the same with the scars; what difference does it make? and he raise up his personal case of being approached by a man of LIFE EXTENSION and said "im straight OK!", like do we care about personal issues of the Hollywood stars? We just wanted to be entertained!
Penelope Cruz looked ill, and anaemic, she is not my favorite Actress but she did not shine like the Original, because Tom would be over-shadowed. In the original, Penny was a penniless student (pardon the pun!), but you feel for her, but not as a Dancer in this movie, because Dancers can easily become strippers making a grand a week!-No sympathy vote here. What is worse is that Tom and Penny's love-making scenes are like accidentally walking into you parents- So Cheesy! playing with a mole on her chest???? EVEN THE CAMERA LOOKS AWAY TO THE BED BOARD TO PASS THE TIME! The Movie critics across the Atlantic commented on Tom and Penny's disability to set the scene on fire, like Penny was with the original star, Edwardo Noreiga, as the good-looking playboy - at least they made you feel lonesome.
Kurt Russell was a waste of talent.
Diaz lacks sympathy as a Psycho b**** from hell, who still confuses herself as a Charlie's angel kicking Tom's butt " oh! Sorry I thought you were a vandal?" Why Hollywood must portray people as either the innocent goodies or the neurotic baddies in the plot, or having a moral center?? In Abre los Ojos, Nawja Nimri as Nuria was jilted, and felt used and enraged - so you feel sorry for her! and I cared about all the others in Abre los ojos- it is more Sinister, Violent, intelligent, psychological, and Sexy, even the music is brilliant and I felt like watching it again, so I recommend the SUPERIOR Spanish Original. However Vanilla Sky is a flop, watching it was like torture DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME.