Vanilla Sky
Peter Bradshaw of "The Guardian" and Gareth Von Kallenbach of the publication "Film Threat" compared "Vanilla Sky" unfavorably to "Open Your Eyes". Bradshaw says "Open Your Eyes" is "certainly more distinctive than" "Vanilla Sky", which he describes as an "extraordinarily narcissistic high-concept vanity project for producer-star Tom Cruise." Other reviewers extrapolate from the knowledge that Cruise had bought the rights to do a version of Amenábar's film. A "Village Voice" reviewer characterized "Vanilla Sky" as "hauntingly frank about being a manifestation of its star's cosmic narcissism".