The Heavy Hand Of Cameron Crowe

Rating: 1/10 (1 November 2003)

Vanilla Sky suffers from a certain smugness, a too glib bent to the dialogue and actor's technique.
As in Almost Famous, Crowe pivots his film around one or two compellingly attractive stars.In this case Tom Cruise, and in Almost Famous, Kate Hudson.
Cruise, like Hudson would do well to learn to shut up, and stop showing off their teeth. Though both actors do a superb job of flashing THE charming smile, we can get too much of a slick thing. Added to the mix, they are surrounded by lesser mortals with the same affliction of refined white flour dialogue, and cheesy grinitis.
We are also left to wonder what exactly does the music have to do with what(little) is going on, on screen?
I can see this guy Cameron Crowe doing smarmy TV in the near future.