watch the original

Rating: Null/10 (15 December 2001)

I tried to go into this film with an open mind. I thoroughly enjoyed Abre los Ojos, and suspected that Hollywood would taint the original package. They did much more than that. First off, they doubled (minimum) the clues throughout the film to give away the ending. I am fairly certain that if I had never seen the original, I still would have known the ending long before it arrived. Cameron Crowe apparently feels that the American public is incapable of following a non-formula film, and has hence assimilated it to the formulaic expectations of his target audience as much as possible. I felt that the audience was having their hand held through the entire experience, and the cryptic original had been dulled down to a cheesy Hollywood movie. There is no "you were sorely missed after your passing" in the original, and it detracts from the message of the original.
Rent the original, don't deaden the experience by watching this version.
Abre los Ojos.