This is one of those movies I call a "fun ride". It isn't particularly good or revolutionary or extremely well-written, & it has nothing valuable to say. But damn does it kinda feel good to watch the lead woman kick some Xeno-asses in CGI goo.

In 2025, Vanilla Sky just doesn't hold up. The women in the story are such flat objects, it's hard to watch it without eye roll after eye roll. The whole thing seems to think it's clever & it very much isn't. It resorts to very lazily explaining absolutely everything in great detail right at the end all deus ex machina-like. It seems like Vanilla Sky is a little time capsule filled with everything bad from the 90's. Blech. & also fuck Tom Cruise.