We finally got around to watching Vanilla Sky last night, which I've had sitting around for ages. The first half was akin to Minority Report, which is to say, it had Tom Cruise in it too much and was terribly tedious, poorly paced and faux-artistic. The second half was rather better, to the point of almost being worth watching. However, there's a vastly superior alternative to watching Vanilla Sky - and I'm not even going to say "not watching Vanilla Sky", here, as I normally would - and that's watching Darkman. The plots of the two movies are very close to parallel, but Sam Raimi's sense of drama and timing is a lot less flimsy than Cameron Crowe's.
The moral of Vanilla Sky appears to be "don't get in cars with insane blonde women who've been stalking you", but in fact, it's "don't watch movies that have Tom Cruise in them because they'll be boring". Even though that should be the director's fault.
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