Vanilla Sky
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 Young, handsome and wealthy, publishing tycoon David Aames (Cruise) can have everything his heart desires. Still, David's charmed life seems incomplete. One night, David meets the woman of his dreams (Penelope Cruz) and believes he may have found the missing piece. But a fateful encounter with a jealous lover (Cameron Diaz) suddenly sends David's world out of control, rocketing him on a roller-coaster ride of romance, sex, suspicion and dreams.. to a shocking, final awakening you will never forget.
Tom Cruise delivers one of his finest performances in this unforgettably powerful film that reunites him with Cameron Crowe, the director of Jerry Maguire. It's always a bit worrying when Hollywood remakes a favourite European film, especially one as fiercely astonishing as Alejandro Amenabar's Abre los Ojos (aka Open Your Eyes). And while this new version wasn't specifically necessary, at least Crowe does something original, using the premise and characters (including Cruz in the same role) to make startlingly different film, but with constant echoes of the original. David Aames (Cruise) is heir to a publishing empire, the golden boy living the Manhattan high life with a casual girlfriend (Diaz), his loyal best buddy (Lee) and more money than God. When he meets the beguiling Sofia (Cruz), he starts rethinking his priorities. But a car crash changes everything, and he turns to a psychologist (Russell) to try to sort out the unravelling threads of his identity. As the story gets darker and heavier, the film really grabs hold in a powerful way, as long as we can let ourselves be carried along until the complex conclusion. Characters flit in and out of the story, filling in gaps and adding texture while Cruise holds things together with an edgy central performance that begins to undermine his superstar image (but not quite). It's all very introspective and thought-provoking, and in the end it leaves us thoroughly shaken, contemplating issues of identity and ambition. Intriguing stuff. Strangely, the film seems bloated and under-edited. It's like we're watching Crowe's first rough cut; it's badly in need of a judicious edit, cutting about a half hour of repetitive, slightly preachy material to leave things more lean and thoughtful. Which brings us back to Abre los Ojos....  Tom Cruise ... David Aames Penélope Cruz ... Sofia Serrano Cameron Diaz ... Julie Gianni Kurt Russell ... McCabe Jason Lee ... Brian Shelby Noah Taylor ... Edmund Ventura Timothy Spall ... Thomas Tipp Tilda Swinton ... Rebecca Dearborn Michael Shannon ... Aaron Delaina Mitchell ... David's Assistant Shalom Harlow ... Colleen Oona Hart ... Lynette Ivana Milicevic ... Emma Johnny Galecki ... Peter Brown Jhaemi Willens ... Jamie Berliner IMDB Trailer Download Torrent 
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