As litteral as remakes comes

Rating: 7/10 (17 February 2020)

Vanilla Sky is about as literal as remakes commes. At least 97% of scenes are directly taken from the original Abre Los Ojos/Open your eyes, with very little cahnge. Even a lot of dialogue are almost word for word translated and transfered. I liked Abre Los Ojos a lot, and therefore I also like this movie. Had I watched this one before the original I might have rated it higher, and I know it's not quite fair to this one to rate it based on another movie, but as it is such a close copy, that is were I stand now. Vanilla Sky does win points for better describing the main characters company problems, but loses points over all for not feeling quite as emotional as the original. I wouldn't advise against seeing Vanilla Sky, but I'd first direct you towards the original. If you've already wtched Vanilla Sky and liked it, definatly look up the original, if you've watched abre los ojos already but not Vanilla Sky, I'd say you neednt bother too much about this movie.