"Donnie" is everything you could ask for in a great movie

Rating: 10/10 (19 March 2006)

I heard some buzz about how great a little film called "Donnie Darko" is before, and I did spend five minutes pouring over the DVD cover at Target. So one night, after I got it on Netflix, I popped it in the DVD player and sat my fanny on the couch. It was one of the best two hours I ever spent in front of the television.
Donnie Darko is portrayed magnificently by Jake Gyllenhaal of "Brokeback Mountain" fame. Donnie is a teenager of roughly sixteen who gets disturbing visions of a six foot tall rabbit who tells him that the world will end in 28 days, 6 hours, 42 minutes, and 12 seconds. That night an engine from an airplane falls through the roof of Donnie's bedroom.
This movie is filled with laughs and chills and awesome cinematography. It is a great film for those who like to think about the movie they just saw. The ending is kind of open-ended, which leaves room for the viewers themselves to interpret the film.
On the cover of the DVD I believe, it hails Donnie Darko as a "psychological thriller". While very psychological, calling it a "psychological thriller" does not do it justice. The best classification of the film that us movie buffs can think of is a thinkpiece. Whether it's thinking about how the ending happened, if poor Cherita Chen will ever be understood, about the story behind Frank the bunny, whether or not every living creature on earth dies alone, how exactly one "sucks a f*ck", and about the sexual lives of smurfs, this film provokes those thoughts.
I dare you to enjoy the masterpiece of "Donnie Darko".