SUBMITTED BY Scooby

December 14, 2001 — A Mixed Review by Paul Clinton. Here's a clip:

Drowning in pop images, amid dozens of musical references, "Vanilla Sky" goes careening across the screen, flying from one contradiction to the next. Crowe is a highly gifted director and Cruise is no slouch when it comes to making movies, but the two have miscalculated with "Vanilla Sky." They jerk the audience's collective chain once too often while they flash back and forth between what is and isn't real -- leaving viewers stuck somewhere between confusion and contempt.