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| Vanilla Sky David Aines (Tom Cruise) has it all, money, a great job, a sexy girlfriend - Julie (Cameron Diaz) - a fancy car and a quirky intellectual friend. Then he spends one night with Sofia (Penelope Cruz) and Julie is stalking him and then smashing her car off a bridge in Central park killing herself and disfiguring David. Oh dear. David wears a mask, his life goes downhill and suddenly everything going Pete Tong. Sofia turns into Julie, Manhatten is deserted, he gets opearted on and looks handsome again, then again he's still has bad make up, and that geek out of Shine keeps turning up. Is he dreaming? Is there a conspiracy?... ...No it's just a pile of a shite. Cameron Crowe would like to convince us that he is some kind of "original' visionary please. PLEASE! So let's have Trauffaut posters on the walls, let's have cavanous Kubrickian sets, whizzing crane shots and an empty Times Square (the only decent sequence in the whole movie) it doesn't make for movie greatness it's just overbearing, half baked and contrived. And there is two and a quarter hours of complete pants to sit through whilst waiting for the boring (this will tie it all up) twist at the end that even a nine year old would reject as a lame explanation. Cruise is meant to be vain and selfish but he is so grating and one- dimensional that you just don't care that he's disfigured or confused or whatever, he couldn't show any verisimillitude in Eyes Wide Shut so why he thinks he can in this unimaginative landscape with an overrated hack like Crowe is anyone's guess. 3/10 |