Plain old vanilla it's not. Go on, try it for yourself.

Rating: 8/10 (17 December 2001)

I suspect there'll be negative reviews for Vanilla Sky. Don't let them deter you. It's worth a careful viewing.
Although the film isn't representative of Mr. Crowe's accessible cannon of films, it's his most ambitious and most fascinating. With the exception of the saccharine charm of the ever-so-coy Ms. Cruz, cast and script are immensely appealing. Although film is abstract in the very ways that the Monet David shows to Sophia is not, it's an interesting puzzle of a film, leaving you with more questions than answers, touching on a multitude of themes including: What is love? How important is external beauty to achieving love? And it asks the question: If you could choose an honest, painful and highly imperfect life or a blissful, utopia of an existence where everything you ever dreamed of would be yours, which would you choose and, most importantly, could you live with the consequences of your decision?