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It would appear that Cesar has everything going for him - he's charming, rich and unbelievably handsome. But as we find out in Open Your Eyes, appearances can be deceiving. On the night of his twenty-fifth birthday Cesar meets Sof'a, and for the first time, thinks that he may have found the ideal woman. After spending an .. Read more

Starring	Eduardo Noriega, Chete Lera, Fele Martinez, Najwa Nimri
Director	Alejandro Amenabar
Genres	Drama, World Cinema

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- "...OPEN YOUR EYES is a film with enough intellectual meat on its stylish bones to give more adventurous moviegoers something to chew on afterward..."
- 10229
- - New York Times
  - 11 Mar 2005 at 12:59
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  - 4
  Open up your ending
  
  Open your eyes is a mind screw of a movie, it keeps you tense and on edge till the very end and does its best to freak you out along the way which it does a ... read more »
  
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  - johnnyfraudster
  - greater london
  - 05 Feb 2004 at 15:35
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  Ah Penelope...
  
  Ah Penelope. Suddenly I understand Tom Cruise a little better... Great film, scary and tense at times, and any trickiness in the plot comes clear at the end.
  
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- - Buddhyboy
  - 1 review
  - 16 Feb 2012 at 19:18
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  If you're tempted to watch Vanilla Sky, watch Open Your Eyes first...
  
  Original version of Vanilla Sky, evidentially more gripping than the Hollywood remake. The Times Square shot is still favourite scene of both films. 7/10
  
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- - Bobda
  - 2 reviews
  - Salford
  - 11 Dec 2011 at 10:24
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  Remember that film with Tom cruse? you know Vanilla Sky? The one you kinda liked but felt as if you'd missed some thing?
  
  This is it! don't get me wrong I LOVE Vanilla Sky. But Open your eyes is the film that it was based off and for some reason it just seems to make more sense... read more »
  
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- - Fishy182
  - 22 reviews
  - Uxbridge
  - 28 Nov 2011 at 22:49
- - 3
  - 0
  open YOUR eyes
  
  this was a brilliant film the original spanish version of the dreadfull vanilla sky which manages to become confusing and adds unnessarcary pieces which bring ... read more »
  
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- - nurseboy
  - 29 reviews
  - oxford
  - 09 Aug 2011 at 18:56
- - 4
  - 1
  Fantastically Thought Provoking!
  
  I rented this film without realising it was in fact in Spanish! I thought as I'd switched it on, I might as well carry on watching...... I wasn't ... read more »
  
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- [Highly rated reviewer]
  - buzty25
  - 6 reviews
  - Wrexham
  - 21 Nov 2010 at 18:24
- - 7
  - 0
  MUCH CLEARER THAN VANILLA SKY
  
  Actually I think this is much better than Vanilla Sky. The whole issue of what happened to the main character is explained in more detail. It is disturbing so ... read more »
  
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- - venezuela
  - 157 reviews
  - Isleworth
  - 18 Jul 2010 at 00:43
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  - 10
  Intensely dislikable
  
  A dumb ugly film that thinks it’s clever and good-looking, about someone who is dumb and ugly and thinks he is clever and good looking. I should like to ... read more »
  
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- - Boatthink
  - 76 reviews
  - Burton
  - 01 Feb 2010 at 22:06
- - 1
  - 0
  Surprisingly good
  
  having just watched being john malkovich, and not being particularly impressed, I was somewhat dubious about renting another surrealism type film.
  
  I... read more »
  
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  - Sutton
  - 14 May 2009 at 13:00
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  Stunning.
  
  Wow, what a fantastic film, full of great ideas and ambition. A real treat. Watch and enjoy filmmaking at its best
  
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- - lukeyo
  - 3 reviews
  - Watford
  - 10 May 2009 at 20:43
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  - 1
  'Open Your Eyes'
  
  well, it basicly 'vanilla sky', but in spanish.... interesting movie, but you need to think hard to get the meaning of it... so if you dont speak ... read more »
  
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- - Melinda
  - 26 reviews
  - Charlbury
  - 29 Apr 2009 at 18:10
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- - 37
  - 4
  Open up your ending
  
  Open your eyes is a mind screw of a movie, it keeps you tense and on edge till the very end and does its best to freak you out along the way which it does a ... read more »
  
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- 299109
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  - johnnyfraudster
  - greater london
  - 05 Feb 2004 at 15:35
- - 9
  - 2
  Spanish Vanilla
  
  This is the original Spanish film, re-made by Tom Cruise as 'Vanilla Sky'.
  
  While the latter is set in New York, this is Madrid. Penelope Cruz... read more »
  
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  - Scotland
  - 13 Feb 2004 at 08:13
- - 7
  - 0
  MUCH CLEARER THAN VANILLA SKY
  
  Actually I think this is much better than Vanilla Sky. The whole issue of what happened to the main character is explained in more detail. It is disturbing so ... read more »
  
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- - venezuela
  - 157 reviews
  - Isleworth
  - 18 Jul 2010 at 00:43
- - 6
  - 0
  Hauntingly brilliant
  
  Anyone who saw Vanilla Sky would be excused for thinking this film would be a dud. But this was the original written by Amenabar, a hauntingly brilliant ... read more »
  
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  - moviemole
  - 25 reviews
  - Chichester
  - 08 Jan 2005 at 16:23
- - 8
  - 6
  Open your eyes
  
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  Didn't realize it had sub titles, found this distracted from the story line and didn't watch the whole movie
  
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- - a customer
  - Cambridge
  - 19 Apr 2008 at 23:36
- - 5
  - 1
  Awful
  
  Soooooo disappointing and dated
  
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- - a customer
  - Cardiff
  - 15 Aug 2006 at 09:59
- - 4
  - 0
  Eyes wide open...
  
  Forgive the comparison with Vanilla Sky but I found it much easier to accept the Cesar character in this telling of the story. His self assurance prior to the ... read more »
  
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  - London
  - 03 May 2005 at 15:31
- - 4
  - 1
  Entertaining movie -- ...
  
  Entertaining movie -- plot is somewhat fantastic and not entirely believable. Penelope CRuz like you have not seen her in Hollywood productions :-).
  
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  - LONDON
  - 03 Sep 2004 at 09:01
- - 4
  - 1
  Fantastically Thought Provoking!
  
  I rented this film without realising it was in fact in Spanish! I thought as I'd switched it on, I might as well carry on watching...... I wasn't ... read more »
  
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- 941387
- [Highly rated reviewer]
  - buzty25
  - 6 reviews
  - Wrexham
  - 21 Nov 2010 at 18:24
- - 3
  - 0
  Brilliant, enthralling!
  
  The heart of 'Open your Eyes' is the uncertainty and the constant hovering between genres. Is it a thriller? A psychological mystery? Sci-fi? (Vanilla ... read more »
  
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- - Clerico
  - 84 reviews
  - Dunbar
  - 15 Jan 2005 at 17:32

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Critics' reviews
- "...OPEN YOUR EYES is a film with enough intellectual meat on its stylish bones to give more adventurous moviegoers something to chew on afterward..."
- 10229
- - New York Times
  - 11 Mar 2005 at 12:59
- "...A complex, disturbing, occasionally terrifying story that wreaks havoc with our own fragile sense of what's real and what's not..."
- 10228
- - Los Angeles Times
  - 11 Mar 2005 at 12:59
- "...The label 'psychological thriller' doesn't do justice to the playful, enjoyably perplexing OPEN YOUR EYES..." -- 4 out of 5 stars
- 10230
- - Total Film
  - 11 Mar 2005 at 12:59
- You might think seeing is believing, but tell that to AmenÃbar, writer/director of this dazzling thriller, which toys... read more on Time Out
- 44839
- - Time Out
  - 04 Nov 2008 at 00:15
- "...Successful both as suspense and as philosophy, OPEN YOUR EYES is sci-fi for the more serious-minded..."
- 10226
- - Box Office
  - 11 Mar 2005 at 12:59
- "...Intricate thriller..." -- Rating: B
- 10227
- - Entertainment Weekly
  - 11 Mar 2005 at 12:59

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  It would appear that Cesar has everything going for him - he's charming, rich and unbelievably handsome. But as we find out in Open Your Eyes, appearances can be deceiving. On the night of his twenty-fifth birthday Cesar meets Sof'a, and for the first time, thinks that he may have found the ideal ...