Disappointing

Rating: 3/10 (18 April 2020)

I really like intellectual content and movies, but somehow this movie did not live up to it's hype for me. The mistery around Donnie and his visions were interesting, and Jake nailed this role, but the story in my opinion was a mess and left more questions than answers. Why were the English class teacher, the Chinese girl, the motivation trainer and Donnie's girlfriend important? What was the point in the cinema scene with Frank revealing himself? Why does Frank force Donnie to do things certain things like flood his school or set fire to someone's house? What does the ending mean ? To me it seemed like Donnie survived in one universe/time, but died in another one.
Honestly, the movie was long and progressed slowly. It kept up my interest with more and more mistery, for which I hoped for a plot twist and grand explanation with the ending. The plot twist arrived, but the questions remained. For this, I personally did not like this movie.